The Anatomy of Fashion: Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today

Clothes Take The Ordinary Human Body & Fashion It Into Something Remarkable. Born To The Same Anatomical Legacy, Each Generation Has Used Garments To Shape Itself In The Image Of Its Own Particular Desires. Taking Different Body Parts In Turn, 'the Anatomy Of Fashion' Invites Us To View Ourselves As We Have Been In The Past. Prologue: Approaching The Past -- Head And Neck -- Breasts And Waist -- Hips And Bottom -- Genitals And Legs -- Skin -- Epilogue: Fashioning The Body Today. Susan J. Vincent. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.