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- W657245327 abstract "The Lady's Dressing-Room was the indispensable companion of every 'well-bred woman' and 'great lady' at the close of the nineteenth century. In chapters on each part of the female form, as well as everything one might wish to adorn it with, copious details guide the reader through such imperfections as wrinkles, sunburn, warts and even baldness - for which a concoction of rum and onion is prescribed - without ever venturing upon too much scientific explanation. Such simple and politely euphemistic terminology as 'small black spots' and 'redness', combined with the occasional piece of hearsay or high society gossip, gives the impression of a casual yet authoritative chat among nineteenth century aristocratic 'gentlewomen'. Ever fearful of old age or indeed the illusion thereof, The Lady's Dressing-Room strikes a graceful balance between hopeless self-indulgence - chocolate is offered as a cure for bad breath - and an heroic call for 'spartan frugality' where there is even the slightest 'tendency to grow stout'. As well as being highly informative on its intended subject, this book also divulges a great deal about the writer's contemporary society. Numerous pages of advertisements for everything from a carpet sweeper 'the greatest labour saving invention of the century - Invention hath no nobler aim than to lighten woman's labour'; new patent invisible boot and shoe elevators - without fear of detection in either sex and the permanent removal of superfluous vein-marks, moles or warts through the administering of electricity by a lady electrician, demonstrate a burgeoning consumerism (not to mention Victorian eccentricity). While assertions such as that we 'are in so many ways above Orientals' highlight the matter-of-fact feeling of Western superiority prevalent at the time. Nothing was more important to a lady than to be seen to be a lady. This is the book that showed them how." @default.
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