Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed

　　Over time and across cultures, shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict, enhance, minimize, or exaggerate various zones of the human body. This stimulating book displays and discusses an array of such extreme fashion practices, from the bound feet of aristocratic Manchu women to the tea-tray supporting bustle of an 1880s French visiting dress.

作者簡介

　　Harold Koda, Curator of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is also the author of Goddess: The Classical Mode, available from Yale University Press.