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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Toilette of health, beauty, and fashion

The Toilette of health, beauty, and fashion

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Health GeneralFurniture DesignGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353709113
ISBN13: 9789353709112
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before the bathroom cabinet, there was the toilette table. Open this forgotten guide to the daily arts of looking well and living clean. Beauty was serious business then. The Toilette of health, beauty, and fashion gathers the kind of counsel once passed from dressing-room to parlour: a historical grooming handbook and beauty and hygiene guide that moves from skin, hair, and scent to the social polish of dress. Expect practical personal health advice alongside herbal beauty remedies and traditional cosmetics recipes, with the tone of a fashion etiquette manual shaped by the tastes of Victorian era fashion and 19th century beauty. Read it for curiosity and atmosphere, or keep it close as a historical reenactment reference and costume designers resource when small period details matter. A classic of domestic instruction, this volume belongs with any antique domestic manuals collection, capturing how everyday people understood cleanliness, attractiveness, and respectability in an age before modern branding and dermatology. Written for the home, it reflects the era's beliefs about morality, class, and the body, making it a small window onto private life as well as public style for modern readers. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For readers who relish a facsimile reprint edition experience, it offers an invitation to handle history: a satisfying read for casual browsers and a handsome addition for classic-literature collectors.

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