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Beauty and cosmetics, 1550-1950
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Beauty and cosmetics, 1550-1950

Author: Sarah Jane Downing
Publisher: Oxford, UK ; Long Island City, NY : Shire, 2012, ©2012.
Series: Shire library, no. 633.
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The source of tremendous power and focus of incredible devotion, throughout history notions of beauty have been integral to social life. Each age has had its own standards: a gleaming white brow  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sarah Jane Downing
ISBN: 9780747808398 0747808392
OCLC Number: 757931281
Description: 64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
Series Title: Shire library, no. 633.
Responsibility: Sarah Jane Downing.
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"Small and compact, this wonderfully illustrated book describes the standards of beauty popular in each era, from 1550 when alabaster brows were highly prized, to the black eyebrows that were favored Read more...

 
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