Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction: Fashion, Health, and Beauty; Chapter Two: Trousers: The Rational Alternative to Skirts; Chapter Three: The Invisibles: Hygienic Underwear, "Dress Systems," and Making Fashion Rational; Chapter Four: Artistic Dress in England: Visions of Beauty and Health; Chapter Five: Artistic Dress in America; Chapter Six: Artistic Dress and the Modern Design Movement on the Continent; Chapter Seven: Fashion, Dress Reform, and the New Woman; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index
