Antique Tears
Kate Retford: Consumptive Chic, 3 December 2020
The Age of Undress: Art, fashion and the classical ideal in the 1790s
by Amelia Rauser.
Yale, 215 pp., £35, March,978 0 300 24120 4 Show More
by Amelia Rauser.
Yale, 215 pp., £35, March,
“... white fabric and a body beneath that was clearly no longer tightly corseted.In The Age of Undress, Amelia Rauser examines the fashion that burned brightly, if briefly, at the end of the 18th century. The trend was highly revealing. Breasts had already been on display, pushed up and accentuated by those earlier stomachers, but now backs and arms were also ... ”
