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I really learned a lot, not merely about fashion from about the 1800s to the 1950s, but also nearly how human greed and disdain for the lower classes helped to continue horrible practices in the wearable trade for decades. The upper and heart course were non allowed either, for if the poor industrial age factory workers were existence made physically and mentally ill from deficient practices in the manufacture and dyeing of clothi
Gruesome, fascinating story of fashion coupled with ignorance and commerceI really learned a lot, not but about fashion from about the 1800s to the 1950s, but too nearly how human greed and disdain for the lower classes helped to go along horrible practices in the clothing trade for decades. The upper and middle class were not allowed either, for if the poor industrial age factory workers were being made physically and mentally sick from deficient practices in the manufacture and dyeing of clothing, these dress were made for their "betters" who often succumbed to the wearing of them.
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The sophisticated marketing mechanism of the fashion industry has narrowed our view: we have focused on the social and psychological dimensions of way victimization. Our fright and sometimes our scorn leveled at the shopaholic who buys too much, the teen who dresses awkwardly and is mocked or ostracized from her peer group, or the young woman who has torso image and self-esteem iGrim nonetheless fascinating. Fashion Victims reveals an manufacture with a tawdry history of sacrificing people for profit.
The sophisticated marketing mechanism of the mode manufacture has narrowed our view: we have focused on the social and psychological dimensions of fashion victimization. Our fright and sometimes our contemptuousness leveled at the shopaholic who buys also much, the teen who dresses awkwardly and is mocked or ostracized from her peer grouping, or the immature adult female who has trunk image and cocky-esteem issues acquired by the thin, white beauty ideals paraded triumphantly on catwalks, magazines, and the Internet. This is the face of fashion that nosotros see, and it seduces u.s.a. with its calculated glamour fifty-fifty as we critique its shallowness....more
Author Allison Matthews David'due south book "focuses on the 19th and early 20th centuries in France,
and the United Kingdom, and North America, a period which fashionable clothing
mechanically alter the natural silhouette of the trunk. Elegant people put their appearances above their health, with women tottering nigh in high heels, wide hoop skirts, and cons "Mode Victims", The Dangers of Dress Past and Present, is fascinating, frightening, and idea-provoking. It's eye-opening with gorgeous photos.
Writer Allison Matthews David's book "focuses on the 19th and early 20th centuries in France,
and the Uk, and North America, a menstruum which fashionable clothing
mechanically alter the natural silhouette of the trunk. Elegant people put their appearances above their health, with women tottering about in loftier heels, wide hoop skirts, and constricting corsets, while men sweltered and heavy hats, tight starched collars, and narrow boots that a modern Western or would not endure".
"In a routine experiment on August 14, 1996, Karen Wetterham, a 48-year one-time chemistry
professor at Dartmouth College who specialized in the study of toxic metal exposure, accidentally spilled a few drops of mercury on her glove. Less than a year later she was expressionless. She believed that the latex gloves she was wearing forest protector and did non take them off immediately. Withal, 'supertoxic' dimethyl mercury she was using soaked through her gloves and entered her bloodstream in less than 15 seconds".
Throughout this book Allison shares stories ....and well researched facts nearly the cruelties of style. Nosotros take crippled people with tight shoes. Health professions have blamed women for wellness hazards to internal organs from tight laced corsets.
Poisonous garments, tainted material, has not been fully studied. However nosotros do know that soldiers in war were infected with bone diseases, illnesses, that were caused by epidemics from germs and lice subconscious in seems of garments.
Hat wearers are at risk considering high levels of mercury have been found in fur dust -making medical doctors suspicious.
Poisonous pigments- arsenical greens killed 19 year quondam Matilda Scheurer Nov. xx, 1861,
when she was making bogus flowers with green die.
Toxic colors have been found in children'southward toys, candies, and other consumer products.
Information technology's frightening to think of inflammatory fabrics.
Modern medicine and scientific discipline take solved some of these historical problems with manner.
Yet while nosotros have exported many, we have created entirely new ones.
It'south pretty scary to think that the chugalug that you lot but bought, might exist radioactive.
Denim is a pop fabric. A circuitous of cocktail of chemicals is released into the h2o every time jeans are made.
This book is unique and really interesting. I'grand certain glad I had a chance to read information technology. I think about
my oldest daughter - the many years she perform equally an actress with the Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival... ( I wonder nearly all that make-up on her face she wore). I thought about the stilettos she'southward danced in... the many costumes she has worn in theater. I call up well-nigh projects effectually my house, knowing I have had different allergies.
I thought well-nigh the doctors - functional medicine doctors and even celebrities similar Gwyneth Paltrow, advocating organic food products, corrective products, household products, natural fabrics, loose fitting article of clothing to allow the body to move freely.
We all the same have our challenges - every bit in the 19th and 20th centuries, but nosotros've come forth style baby. :)
Cheers Bloomsbury Academics, Netgalley, and the cute - non-frivolous human being...
writer, Allison Matthews David. ( a privilege to read your book)
Now I gauge that's scary and all, but know what's Really scary? Getting poisoned to expiry past your socks and underwear when you're just trying to go re
At that place is a television show called "Naked and Agape," which I take not seen, and won't see, simply accept gathered from its advertisements that information technology features individuals risking deadly wilderness situations - leapfrogging over scorpions, gulping slugs for sustenance, etc. - to which they are fabricated all the more vulnerable because they are completely nude.Now I guess that's scary and all, just know what'due south Really scary? Getting poisoned to death past your socks and underwear when you're just trying to go respectably plenty dressed and put in a routine 24-hour interval'south work.
"Fashion Victims," aka "Clothed and Agape," recounts all the different possible ways that undergarments and outergarments have heinously murdered both their wearers and especially their makers, especially in North America and Western Europe between the early 1800s to the 1930s. These garments were able to impale a bunch of folks because we basically had no thought what kinds of crazy potential devastation we were unleashing in their various manufacturing processes, but we wanted - and so every bit at present - to look as fabulous as possible, and to brand as much cheddar as possible. And so, we quickly invented, made (or compelled others to make), advertised, sold, and wore all kinds of stuff that we then, later, eventually, figured out was completely deadly in utterly grotesque and torturous ways. And then this aforementioned bones process repeated itself infinitely over the well-nigh i.v centuries covered past the book.
This book kind of reveals about wear what a book similar Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (or, today, "Fast Food Nation" or the picture show "Super-Size Me") reveals near nutrient processing and eating. Information technology is also reminiscent of how, for example, we've been playing and watching football for ages with reckless abandon and are just just now starting to seriously discuss the dandy risk and trouble of concussions and traumatic head injury.
The instance studies in this volume were about every bit gruesome and macabre as those in Edward Gorey'southward "The Gashleycrumb Tinies," in which a multifariousness of naive moppets autumn to their demise in horrendous manner: trampled flat by a ball; sank in a mire; choked on a peach; took lye past error; sucked dry past a leech, etc. (These are all surprisingly more than adorable than you'd think, rendered in Gorey'due south eerie fashion.) In stark contrast, the mass sartorial death described in "Fashion Victims," though equally varied and creative, is incomparably NOT beautiful in the least. Rather, information technology all gave me nightmares and rendered me into a complete hypochondriacal state in which I became convinced that I was feeling suspiciously unwell and it was surely because I'd been poisoned from sitting around on my donkey in green sweatpants. (Greenish is Non good in this book, with sincere apologies to "the most toxic of colors"). Even Early Stephen Rex, ultimate purveyor of "innocent good thing turned evil on y'all" plot - your domestic dog, your cool car, your daughter, the fog - could not take competed with the horrific scenarios recounted in this book. Remember that's a rummage ya just stuck in your hair? Nah - information technology's basically a lit stick of dynamite.
All that being said, at that place'due south way more value to this book than mere shock value. First of all - information technology'due south an absolutely beautiful volume (published by Bloomsbury), as gorgeous as the stories within information technology are awful. And in its beauty, the form of the book matches its function, because all the color plates and illustrations help to show why these deadly clothes and accessories were so seductive, and how advertisers and the market were able to sell them to consumers; forestall and evade growing warnings from medicine, science, journalists, and reformers; and hogtie underpaid, overworked workers to craft them until the workers literally dropped.
The book is beautifully researched and written also. Matthews David is clearly a nifty historian and scholar of manner who is passionate about her subject and her desire to create for united states of america a "usable history." I have to say that although I've read lots of straightforward contemporary nonfiction making reasonable theoretical arguments about how we probably are killing ourselves, others, and nature through our fashion, dazzler, and other consumerist habits - it was well-nigh more than powerful to read a ton of specific and proven and grotesque by examples of how we definitely did this, admittedly ALL the fourth dimension, ALL over the Western world, for over i hundred years! that were not that long ago at all! Did we just so happen to figure out, say around 1935-ish, All The Scientific discipline needed to place All the Effects and definitively ensure the long-term health and safety of worker, wearer, and nature forevermore? After reading through all the extensive, sound, sample disasters that this author has unearthed - it only seems very unlikely to me that nosotros fucked upwards so difficult for so long but relax! - today nosotros've got it allllll under control....
...And fifty-fifty if you lot don't quite purchase into my pessimistic brand of inferential reasoning in which all historical roads lead to Nosotros're Definitely Still Doomed, the writer is also careful (particularly in her introductory and concluding chapters) to more explicitly connect the history she recounts to our own, present-24-hour interval, ongoing health, environmental, and social justice concerns related to the industry and use of way worldwide today.
Though disturbing, this is a very worthwhile read for those interested in social, cultural, and material history, manner history, the history of health and medicine, and feminism and gender.
Chapters:
Introduction: Decease by Manner in Fact and Fiction
1. Diseased Dress: Germ Warfare
two. Toxic Techniques: Mercurial Hats
iii. Poisonous Pigments: Arsenical Greens
4. Dangerous Dyes: A Pretty, Deadly Rainbow
5. Entangled and Strangled: Defenseless in the Automobile
6. Inflammatory Fabrics: Flaming Tutus and Combustible Crinolines
7. Explosive Fakes: Plastic Combs and Artificial Silk
Conclusion: The Afterlife of Mode Victims
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I found this book to be very interesting and informative. I institute out a lot of things that I did not know. Some things I was enlightened of and some not. It is light-headed when yous call back back over the years and some of the fashion trends that have been around. And, it's really sad to observe out that for the by 25 years I have been putting toxicant into my torso past dying my pilus. Withal, with the alternative being gray roots, yous won't see me changing that
4 stars!Yep I'm a geek likewise. Don't play trivia with me.
I found this volume to be very interesting and informative. I found out a lot of things that I did not know. Some things I was aware of and some not. It is light-headed when yous call back dorsum over the years and some of the fashion trends that have been around. And, it's really sorry to observe out that for the past 25 years I have been putting poison into my body past dying my pilus. However, with the alternative being grayness roots, you won't meet me changing that routine.
I love to read books from Victorian London and information technology e'er cracks me upwards how those women can walk around all primpy like with no roads, sometimes no sidewalks and even if at that place is, they are muddy, and they are walking in horse and human crap and urine, vomit, rotten vegetables, garbage and only who knows what in their dresses downwards to their ankles scrapping through all that crap. Gross.
Okay, the public service announcement is over, back to the book. I learned a lot of things that I did non know. I had heard of Isadora Duncan simply I had not heard of the way that she left this globe. That was sad. And I did not hear about how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lost his wife. I had never heard of the hubble brim and can't feel sorry for the women with the iii foot wigs. I just say "why?". The green makes sense to me. You lot never really see a lot of green out in the stores. I accept noticed that. I didn't know that the trouble is still an existing 1 and that such high end retailers still are involved.
Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and establish it to exist very interesting, while learning quite a lot of new facts. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about the history of the fashion industry or the evolution of poisons that have afflicted the fashion and other industries.
I would similar to thank Bloomsbury Bookish and Net Galley for providing me with this free e-galley in exchange for an honest review. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the volume!
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It'due south easy to wait dorsum into the past and laugh at what people once did that nosotros see as insane today. Modern Medicine is a good example (ie, leaches, letting claret, stuffing who-knows-what in open wounds, etc). But fashion is an equally interesting ane. Matthews-David covers and so many different
Wow, this book was... eye-opening. It is written in the style of a textbook, and I suppose it is ane, though not one that would be found in any course I e'er took. Guess I wasn't taking the interesting classes.It'due south piece of cake to look dorsum into the past and laugh at what people one time did that we see as insane today. Modern Medicine is a good example (ie, leaches, letting claret, stuffing who-knows-what in open wounds, etc). Simply fashion is an equally interesting one. Matthews-David covers so many different varieties of decease and maiming past wear that information technology's difficult to non think nigh parallels to today. Examples of subjects she covers are the apply of mercury in hat making, arsenic in making green dye, and ton of dissimilar chemicals in making unlike fabrics.
Most of the time the people who suffered the most weren't the ones who wore the fashions, but the people who were making them. She adds several modernistic day examples of the aforementioned stuff still happening which makes you lot wonder fifty-fifty more about the clothes you're wearing right at present and what exactly went into making them. Side note, these episodes of Planet Money were nearly the highly complicated process of making a simple T-Shirt and how it'due south and so convoluted that changes are boring and hard to come past. Information technology includes a fascinating section on what happens to our wearing apparel when we donate them too.
At the end, she has this to say in determination:
The past shows u.s.a. how profit and novelty have won out over safe and health. A better futurity would include the design and industry of article of clothing that could protect us rather than exposing us to mechanical impairment, contagious illness, accidents and chemic toxins.
I suppose it makes me a very narrow-minded person, but I've never spent much fourth dimension thinking nigh how the wearable I am wearing came to be, but it'southward definitely something I am interested in now. I feel pretty terrible knowing that I may accept unknowingly contributed to someone elses hurting while making my apparel. I can't imagine that people of past times would accept felt differently than I did either, which makes this book all the more important for the story it tells.
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The book is meticulously researched and cleverly broken down into separate capacity, each i denoted by colour coded folio edges which brand for an bonny hardback edition.
Some of the capacity include:
- Poisonous Pigments (Affiliate 3)
- Entangled and Strangled (Chapter 5)
- Inflammatory Fabrics (Chapter 6)
Smashing cha
Way Victims - The Dangers of Apparel By and Present past Alison Matthews David takes a detailed look at fashion items responsible for death, disease and accidents throughout history.The book is meticulously researched and cleverly broken down into split up capacity, each one denoted by colour coded folio edges which make for an attractive hardback edition.
Some of the chapters include:
- Poisonous Pigments (Chapter 3)
- Entangled and Strangled (Chapter v)
- Inflammatory Fabrics (Chapter 6)
Great affiliate headings aren't they? I enjoyed learning about dangerous dyes, the mortiferous mercury used to make hats, the arsenic contained in green garments in the 1800s, ballerinas who burned to death simply refused to modify their stage dress and and then much more.
The research covers both the garment makers (the dyers, dressmakers etc.) and the wearers, exposing the diseases, accidents and deaths attributed to both sides all in the name of manner.
The post-obit extract from the blurb sets the scene for what y'all'll discover in Way Victims:
From insidious murder weapons to bonfire-igniting crinolines, wearable has been the cause of death, affliction and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments nosotros find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'driblet-dead gorgeous' gowns.
Wow, right? Fashion Victims - The Dangers of Dress Past and Present is an excellent reference for students and academics also equally readers interested in way and/or history.
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A fascinating, if sometimes agonizing, look at the deadliness of fashion from the mid-18th century through the mid-20th century. I was drawn to this book for its chapters on mercuric hats and arsenic greens, but all of the fashions highlighted here were fascinating to read about, from the hobble skirts (WHY??) to the combustible crinolines, the combustible artificial plastics and silks, the combustible tulle, the fire-prone flannel.... Pretty much everything was either combustible or p
4.5 starsA fascinating, if sometimes agonizing, look at the deadliness of fashion from the mid-18th century through the mid-20th century. I was drawn to this book for its chapters on mercuric hats and arsenic greens, but all of the fashions highlighted here were fascinating to read nigh, from the hobble skirts (WHY??) to the combustible crinolines, the combustible artificial plastics and silks, the combustible tulle, the burn down-decumbent flannel.... Pretty much everything was either combustible or poisonous. Or both.
I was also fascinated by the seemingly cyclical problem-solution dangers of near all of the fabrics or wearable types featured. Huge hoop skirts presented a fire chance, specially when cotton fiber and tulle replaced silk and wool, merely the other end of the farthermost, the hobble skirt, caused such constraints that women could barely walk. Many dyes were poisonous or otherwise harmful to health (mmmm, mauve color derived coal tar!), only were later replaced with less harmful dyes... only to have the material they were printed on exist scrutinized for being a fire take a chance, on which asbestos-fireproofing was then applied! Non to mention the attempts to relieve animals by inventing synthetic materials or processes that but released harmful toxins into the environs via their production and use!
The volume likewise substantially highlights the class carve up between the producers and the wearers of the clothes, and how the factory workers typically bore the brunt of many side-effects of unsafe fabrics. The concentrated chemical air inside factories, the direct handling of chemicals with bare skin, the ever-present burn down danger, and the risk of being mauled by the machines, via habiliment. The wearers, while less at take chances, nonetheless lived dangerously with swooshing skirts effectually fires, constricting poisonous socks and shoes (made even worse past sweat), and mostly choosing vanity and social fads over safe. Both haute couture and cheap rip offs were not immune to deadly production methods; nor are they allowed today, as the epilogue chapter shows.
The writing mode is much like that of an bookish journal, but is more than hands accessible for the coincidental reader. I would have liked to see more pictures of some of the adverts or items discussed, and I felt that the thread linking these disasters of the past to the present to be very thin (except for in the terminal affiliate).
If y'all're at all interested in the darker side of fashion, I highly recommend this! Each chapter was highly engaging and I can honestly say I came away from this with tons of new information.
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Each chapter details the hazards to both worker and client from such objects as shoe polish (poisonings), tulle used in ballet tutus and loftier fashion accessories (burn hazard), celluloid hair combs (fire and explosions), crinolines and hoop skirts (also burn). If you're thinking that we are all protected from these things today, the reply is not quite. In the last chapter, Ms. David gives descriptions of items from today that have acquired numerous fatalities or sickness.
The book is easy to read, and full of illustrations and color plates of the various hazardous clothing. At that place are besides several ghoulish pictures portraying people suffering and/or burning to death taken from periodicals of the fourth dimension. Coming to the cease of Fashion Victims will leave y'all wanting to look up the nearest nudist colony and reserve a place.
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This may be ane of those, "careful what you wish for" instances. I take been looking for a book but like this for some fourth dimension only after reading all the example studies presented in this fascinating work, I may just avoid standing too close to a yard sale tabular array under a hot sun or exploring dusty attics or antique shops… No, I even so plan on doing those things but because of Manner Victims: The Dangers of Dress P
A head to toe historical tour of the deadly attraction of beauty, propriety and "Dame Fashion"This may exist one of those, "careful what you wish for" instances. I have been looking for a volume only like this for some time merely after reading all the case studies presented in this fascinating piece of work, I may but avoid standing too close to a yard auction table nether a hot sunday or exploring dusty attics or antique shops… No, I withal plan on doing those things but because of Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present I will have a greater appreciation and respect for the hidden treasures I may uncover or discover from afar. This book will practice that, it takes on a museum tour like quality and walks the interested through the register of the truly dark side of beauty, decorum and "Matriarch Fashion" to requite the reader a head to toe makeover of awareness.
In this book nine main sections (Decease past Fashion Fact and Fiction, Diseased Apparel: Germ Warfare, Toxic Techniques: Mercurial Hats, Poisonous Pigments: Arsenical Greens, Unsafe Dyes: A Pretty, Mortiferous Rainbow, Entangled and Strangled: Caught in the Machine, Inflammatory Fabrics: Flaming Tutus and Combustible Crinolines, Explosive Fakes: Plastic Combs and Artificial Silk and The Afterlife of Mode Victims) are presented and then farther broken down into subsections sharing with the curious harrowing true tales of tragic historic encounters and stark comparisons to our modernistic times. Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present is meant to exist a serious sympathetic exam of the victims and the eras they lived, but it too has an unexpected humorous side with some very bizarre photos of advertisements for dissimilar products plus these absurd photos rest out graphic drawings and photographs of the dangers and awful consequences of trends, lack of government regulations and snappy artistic marketing from the 18th-mid 20th centuries centering on England, France and America. In the end, only a few tangents and one section lost this reader'due south interest and this is one title that needs to be enjoyed slowly because there is and so much to explore in this eye-opening book. In between the dour stories, photos and comparisons this work is ultimately about educational activity and I for one accept learned some new fascinating trivia but also accept come away from this title with a deeper respect for these forgotten and ignored sections of history.
* I would like to thank Bloomsbury Bookish and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and enjoy Manner Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
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Even if you can in all honesty say y'all are no mode victim that does not hateful manner tin't bear upon your health considering toxic chemicals have been found in the good oldfashion jeans and t shirt. And then if they aren't safe then what piece of clothing is?
The answer to that is very simple, every element of fashion in infected. That calming sensi
This is one of the best books on style, I've always read. It gives us an honest view of the mode industry and the sometimes alarming consequences of trends.Even if y'all can in all honesty say you lot are no fashion victim that does non mean fashion can't bear on your wellness because toxic chemicals have been found in the good oldfashion jeans and t shirt. So if they aren't safe then what piece of clothing is?
The answer to that is very elementary, every element of fashion in infected. That calming sensible night green in your closet (which I was wearing when reading that affiliate) tin can contain arsenic or at least did until very recently. I can tell you that was disturbing. Jeans and what information technology is manifactured with is best non talked most besides much here since roughly half the worlds population wears jeans at some point and lets just say information technology is not encouraging.
And then there are the blissfully no longer worn crinoline, not only did they ruin a womans figure, were they wildly unpractical and for some strange reason mandatory for all, but they were ofttimes deadly. Getting killed by fire because your skirt was also combustible and too broad to keep away from the burn down was not uncommon. While the early on 20th century skirts were doing wrong in the other direction, past shackling the legs and causing severe to deadly accidents that fashion.
What is about striking to me notwithstanding is that despite all these accidents and fatalities that and then many of the factories were willing to observe ways to brand their products safer and of course help their employees by doing then. In one instance a death by arscenic in the workplace wasn't proof enough that in that location was something wrong with the green dye. Other employees had dark-green fingers and health bug, but that didn't seem to be proof enough of a trouble. At least now when a product is proved hazzardous it is recalled.
And sometimes death came from the silliest places similar bootblack and scarves and for some reason people (or manifacturers) were unwilling to make the investments that would simply serve them in the long run.
This was very educational and well researched, I am glad I found this book.
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I'm not sure which came first, he volume or the eponymous showroom which ran at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto recently--the volume is much more than than an exhibit catalogue, though it does comprise a substantial number of illustrations (129 full colour ones!). And so perhaps the book begat the exhibit? Regardless, it's an imminently readable volume, hardcover, full-color, a coffeetable book of sorts, well worth the $40 retail price. I'll defer to a quote fr
In short, go your hands on a copy. It's fantastic.I'm non certain which came first, he book or the eponymous showroom which ran at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto recently--the book is much more than an exhibit catalogue, though it does contain a substantial number of illustrations (129 full color ones!). And then perhaps the book begat the exhibit? Regardless, it's an imminently readable volume, hardcover, full-color, a coffeetable volume of sorts, well worth the $xl retail price. I'll defer to a quote from the printing release for an fantabulous summary:
A boldly gory and thoroughly illustrated history of death by clothing, from blazing crinolines to mercury-laden fur.
Every bit a major proponent of condom work practices and an instructor who incorporates OSHA/EHS compliance topics into my classes, i plant this book at turns fascinating, heartbreaking, gruesome, inspiring, and at times downright disturbing. Yes, the example cases mentioned within are sometimes horrible on their own, but more horrifying are the bits where the author discusses having lab techs at her university run tests on modern-twenty-four hours products easily bought in stores in your ain neighborhood--lead content in lipsticks, for case, or radioactive metallic used to ornament imported studded belts.
The book is structured so that each chapter focuses on a different class of danger--there's a affiliate devoted to the hazards of the hatting industry, then 1 on flammable tutu internet and flannelette, etc. As a sometime-hatmaker, the hatting chapter was particularly sad--1 illustration showed examples of hatters' legible signatures as immature apprentices assorted with the unreadable trembling scribbles they signed with later a decade in the trade.
I highly recommend the book in general, but information technology's a particularly significant read and reference book for those working in costume archives and in vintage article of clothing houses, besides as those in academia with study collections or big stocks of antique/vintage vesture.
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The author discussed how article of clothing could pass diseases betwixt people, the toxic process
"Style Victims" is a way history near some health dangers associated with wear. It mainly focused on the 1800'southward to early 1900's, only information technology as well talked almost some older and some current dangers. The book was total of interesting photographs of the wear nether give-and-take. It too had drawings from the fourth dimension showing the piece of work conditions of those making the items and illustrating the dangers to the wearer.The writer discussed how clothing could laissez passer diseases between people, the toxic process of making men's rabbit-fur felt hats, deadly chemical dyes like arsenic green used in dresses and hair wreaths or shoe blacking that could kill, and long silk scarves that strangled and hobble skirts that tripped wearers. Some fabrics were particularly prone to catching fire like tulle in tutus, cotton muslin, and flanette cotton. She also talked nearly how crinolines increased danger of the wearer catching fire or getting entangled in mechanism. She described the efforts to come up with an acceptable burn retardant, the use of highly combustible celluloid in combs and other accessories, and various dangers from bogus silks. She besides briefly discussed modernistic dangers from things similar chemical dyes, sand-basting denim, strangulation, flame retardants, and chemicals used in screen-printed garments.
I found the book to be easy to follow and very interesting (though a footling depressing). I'd recommend this book to those who are interested in the details of fashion dangers of the final 200 years.
I received an ebook review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
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Too laid out in terrifying details: pb based makeups, the dangers of hoopskirts in getting Fascinating and horrifying. I accept a weird fascination with arsenic green....had I been a Victorian, I'd surely have died from it as I admire light-green colors! Also fascinating though is the toxicity of some of the newly developed aniline dyes of the era--the vivid shades were sometimes toxic in their preparations or even every bit dangerous every bit some of the arsenical shades....or were even arsenic tainted themselves!
Also laid out in terrifying details: lead based makeups, the dangers of hoopskirts in getting snagged or dragging across an open flame, the flammability of fluffy cottons and gauzes, and the horrible fates of oh-so-flammable ballet dancers. (Gas lights and gauzy burnable fabrics anyone?)
The writer concludes we should know ameliorate....but really we don't. Dyes continue to pollute, habiliment and makeup continues to accept harmful additives, and processes used to make our dress continue to kill the factory workers making it.
Um...nudism anyone?
Forgot I read this and bought a copy. Idea some of this was a bit familiar but I've read other stuff on the same subjects. I read The Poison Squad at the same fourth dimension--some of the same dyes and chemicals that were poisonous on wearing apparel were creeping into foods at the aforementioned time! Desire to eat a piece of candy colored with toxic coal tar dye? Makes a good companion to The Poison Squad!
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Laden with colorful pictures, artwork, manufactures, paper clippings, and ads, Manner Victims puts it all on the table in its artful and intelligent layout. Sometimes the details become overw
From poisonous pigments to mercury in hats, accidents as a event of fashion (hobble skirts—no!), combustible fabrics, and a host of other seriously dangerous fads—Alison Matthews David has rounded up the about disturbing (and disturbingly entertaining) collection of mishaps and tragedies in Manner Victims.Laden with colorful pictures, artwork, manufactures, paper clippings, and ads, Fashion Victims puts information technology all on the table in its artful and intelligent layout. Sometimes the details get overwhelming and I found myself skimming a scrap, just overall the book is fantabulous for history enthusiasts and a must-take for anyone with an interest in fashion.
I would like to thank Net Galley and the publisher, Bloomsbury Bookish, for providing a re-create of this book in substitution for an honest review.
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its encompass is skeletons. Cute ones, but information technology'due south a little startling. At whatever rate, the chapters unfold with focuses on specific dangerous fads and garments. Matthews-David'due south diction is both biographical and cautionary with adages a
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews-David is a free NetGalley ebook that I began reading in late September. When I showtime set eyes on this book'due south listing, I was taken in by its pastel cover and Victorian entreatment, only, one time I pulled upwardly the copy in Adobe Digital Editions....its cover is skeletons. Beautiful ones, merely it's a niggling startling. At whatever rate, the capacity unfold with focuses on specific dangerous fads and garments. Matthews-David's wording is both biographical and cautionary with adages about present-day style that a reader can take to eye (wispy scarves and platform shoes, for instance).
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The book A FANTASTIC and supremely engaging scholarly work on the history of way and the dangers it created through time. Information technology ends on a somewhat somber note-nosotros never really know what goes into the making of our clothes, and I gauge I'g never going to vesture dark-green once more, but overall, I learned so much. The author takes care to talk about the misogyny inherent in a lot of discussions almost fashion, and the differences between the "practical" formalwear of men, vs. the "frivolity" of women'south clothing.
The book was too lavishly illustrated. I purchased it for myself and I am definitely going to read it once again. ...more
A great accomplishment; very well done. Extremely enjoyable read.
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The book is filled with historical artifacts, tons of photographs, and well-told stories. Throughout the
Mode Victims traces the myriad ways our clothing has killed us (with a focus on European and American fashion from the 19th century - today). It turns out our vesture has always been a unsafe, exploitative trade. From flammable fabrics to germ-trapping hem lines to toxic dyes, there's not much in our manner history that hasn't harmed the easily that made information technology or the bodies that wore information technology.The book is filled with historical artifacts, tons of photographs, and well-told stories. Throughout the unabridged book Matthews Davis reminds us that the dangers of wear are not relics of the past, but go along to be very real—if not removed from our daily discover—problems today.
Anyone with an involvement in historical article of clothing, garment making, or the mode industry should read this volume.
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What I got instead was a societal critique, of how the dangers of mode are built-in about entirely by women and the working class. Of how structural failings and consumer culture regularly has and continues to put the vulnerable of society at risk. It'southward well-researched, like shooting fish in a barrel to understand, and fille
I can't say what, exactly, I expected from this book. Perhaps a series of anecdotes such every bit the ones it gives in the chapter "Entangled and Strangled: Caught in the Machine", similar with Isadore Duncan.What I got instead was a societal critique, of how the dangers of mode are born almost entirely by women and the working course. Of how structural failings and consumer culture regularly has and continues to put the vulnerable of society at risk. It's well-researched, easy to understand, and filled with well-chosen images and photographs.
It took me forever to read this book, non because I didn't want to read it but because information technology was my work-reading book and I didn't go much of a chance to read it over the last few months. But overall, I liked it quite a lot. Information technology's not what I'd imagined, but only considering it'due south and so much more.
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