Consumptive chic : a history of beauty, fashion, and disease / by Day, Carolyn A.

Table of Contents: “…From corpulent to consumptive chic ; Fashionable illness ; Sentimental beauty -- The agony of conceit : clothing and consumption. Classical consumptive and the dangers of fashionable life ; Consumptive corsetry and romantic fashion ; Tubercular and tight the sentimental way -- Epilogue: The end of consumptive chic -- Concluding the fashion.…”
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