The History of Corsets in Pictures

2014 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Crawford was a textile scholar and editor at "Women's Wear," a daily journal for the fashion industry. He was a pioneer in the effort to gain independence from Europe for American textiles and fashions. This is a pictorial history of corsets from antiquity [Crete, Egypt, Rome] to the 1940s. Lavishly illustrated.