Corset Couture Paper Dolls

by Brenda Sneathen Mattox

Corsets became essential to stylish attire more than 500 years ago, and their influence lingers to this day. These three dolls--two ladies and a gentleman "dandy"--model a wardrobe of 29 historically accurate costumes that reflect the impact of lingerie on modern couture. Side-by-side comparisons of outfits and the underpinnings that inspired them range from variations on a sixteenth-century "bodie" and "waspies" of the 1950s to the twenty-first-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486490092
• ISBN13: 9780486490090
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.7" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher