Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present Day, by James Laver

adopted appearance bathing costumes became become began blouse blue bodice bonnet brassiere brim busk bust chapter clothes coat coiffure collar colours contemporary corset crepe de Chine crinoline curious day dresses decolletage decollete dinner jacket Directoire effect eighteenth century eighties elaborate English Esthetic extremely fact fashion journals fashion plates favourite female feminine French French Revolution frills front garments gowns hair hats hips hobble skirt influence interior decoration invented kind knee knickerbockers lace ladies lounge suit male material middle mode modern muslin narrow never nineteen-twenties nineties pale Paris Paul Poiret perhaps period petticoats pink plus-fours popular Revolution Romantic round sable satin sealskin Second Empire seems seen short skirts shoulders shows silk skating sleeves sometimes sport style taffetas tail-coat taste tendency tennis tight tight-lacing toilette trimmed trousers twenties underneath uniform velvet vogue waist waistcoat wear whole woman women women's dress wore worn