By By Ashleigh Blackwood The development of maternity clothing is often considered to be a modern phenomenon by both the modern public and fashion industry. As Sandra Matthews explains, the public attention of this specific corner of the clothing market through photography and advertising trends in the 1950s which ‘[held their]
Puppy Water, Beauty’s Help
A guest post by Dr Katherine Aske The beauty products of the early-modern woman were a little different to the ones we know today, and in fact, some of them had far more ‘dog’ in than should be socially acceptable. Eighteenth-century clergyman and poet, Jonathan Swift’s poem ‘The Lady’s Dressing