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019 $a829989360
020 $a9781626361751 (hardcover: alk. paper)
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050 00 $aGT2075$b.C57 2013
082 00 $a391.4/2$223
100 1 $aChrisman, Sarah A.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aVictorian secrets :$bwhat a corset taught me about the past, the present, and myself /$cby Sarah A. Chrisman ; foreword by Sue Lean.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSkyhorse Publishing, Inc.,$c[2013]
300 $axii, 240 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aOn Sarah A. Chrisman's twenty-ninth birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the design were breathtakingly beautiful, but her mind immediately filled with unwelcome views. Although she had been in love with the Victorian era all her life, she had specifically asked her husband not to buy her a corset--ever. She'd heard how corsets affected the female body and what they represented, and she wanted none of it. However, Chrisman agreed to try on the garment and found it surprisingly enjoyable. The corset, she realized, was a tool of empowerment, not oppression. After a year of wearing a corset on a daily basis, her waist had gone from thirty-two inches to twenty-two inches, she was experiencing fewer migraines, and her posture improved. She had successfully transformed her body, her dress, and her lifestyle into that of a Victorian woman--and everyone was asking about it. In Victorian Secrets, Chrisman explains how a garment from the past led to a change in not only the way she viewed herself, but also the ways she understood the major differences between the cultures of twenty-first-century and nineteenth-century America. The desire to delve further into the Victorian lifestyle provided Chrisman with new insight into issues of body image and how women, past and present, have seen and continue to see themselves.
505 00 $tNature and artifice --$tRibbed rumors and stayed truths --$tA step backward in time...and a knotty problem --$tWaisted curves --$tStayed slumber and sizing down --$tA museum visit --$tTwenty-four-seven --$tMeeting Mom --$tServing at table --$tFigure facts --$tBroken bones --$tCustomized curves --$tThe freedom of the corset --$tObjections --$tVotes for women --$tFeminine anatomy, and matters of hygiene --$t"All the pretty girls" --$tDuck the malls --$tWaisted flight --$tStraight-laced security --$tHatter's logic, and pinned perils --$tVeiled glances --$tCrisis for beauty --$tA year on --$tA Victorian lady's dressing sequence --$tFifty years of fashion: a model performance --$tLoose laces to tie up the tale --$tEpilogue.
600 10 $aChrisman, Sarah A.$xClothing.
650 0 $aCorsets$xHistory.
650 0 $aCorsets$xSocial aspects.
852 00 $bglx$hGT2075$i.C57 2013