Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years

(Hardback, 8th Revised edition)

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The definitive text on hair fashions through the ages is back. This revised edition has 16 new pages by fashion historian Caroline Cox to bring hair fashions up to the present day. The first to attempt a comprehensive historical survey of men's and women's hair styles through the ages, from Ancient Egypt through Greece, Egypt, Rome, and Anglo-Saxon times to recent trends in fashion, thisbook isnow an essential work of reference. Drawing on many years of research by the author, this is an essential handbook for theatrical designers, hair artists, illustrators, and beauty consultants as well asall those interested in the changing fashions in hair.Guaranteedto entertain and educate the general reader as well as historians of fashion, this is the perfectcompanion piece to bothFashions in Make-UpandFashions In Eyeglasses."

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..".fascinating." The Walleye Magazine"

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Richard Corson taught theatrical makeup in universities throughout the U. S. and worked as a theaterical makeup consultant. His book Stage Makeup has become the standard text on the subject, while his three valuable social histories, Fashions in Eyeglasses, Fashions in Hair, and Fashions in Makeup, are renowned as classics in their field.