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Killer Fashion: Poisonous Petticoats, Strangulating Scarves, and Other Deadly Garments Throughout History
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date
November 21, 2017
Pages
56
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN-13
9781449487133
ISBN-10
1449487130
Dimensions
0.30 by 6.20 by 7.20 in.
Weight
0.52 lbs.
Original list price
$14.99
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Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History | Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present | The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul | The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine | Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything | Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them | It Ended Badly
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A beautifully illustrated book about deadly fashion—real historical stories of strangulation by scarves, neckbreaking high heels, and riot-causing top hats—from the author of the popular histories Get Well Soon and It Ended Badly
Isadora Duncan was Red
Put on a scarf; popped off her head
Fashion is silly, thought Stein
It may tear your head from your spine
A darkly comic book about some surprisingly lethal garments. Featuring stories like the untimely demise of dancer Isadora Duncan caused by her signature red scarf and the bloody riot that greeted the appearance of the first top hat, among many others, these bite-size accounts will frighten and delight. Killer Fashion includes over twenty of these short tales along with beautiful full-page illustrations. Both morbid and humorous, this book will appeal to fans of Edward Gorey and dark historical trivia.
Isadora Duncan was Red
Put on a scarf; popped off her head
Fashion is silly, thought Stein
It may tear your head from your spine
A darkly comic book about some surprisingly lethal garments. Featuring stories like the untimely demise of dancer Isadora Duncan caused by her signature red scarf and the bloody riot that greeted the appearance of the first top hat, among many others, these bite-size accounts will frighten and delight. Killer Fashion includes over twenty of these short tales along with beautiful full-page illustrations. Both morbid and humorous, this book will appeal to fans of Edward Gorey and dark historical trivia.
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