Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and DiseaseAuthor: Day, Carolyn A. ISBN: 9781350141186 Publisher: Bloomsbury Year first published: 01 Dec 2019 Pages: 208 Format: Paperback softback During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring beauty on the

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