Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

‘Linda Vesco instructs Edith and Peggy’ at the Beauty Farm, 17 August 1963. Valley Times Collection/Los Angeles Public Library.

Reduce and Seduce at the Teenage Beauty Farm

Malibu’s 1960s Beauty Farm aimed to get a new generation of teenagers marriage-ready

‘Monstrosities of 1821,’ by George Cruikshank. Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery. Public Domain.

‘Shoes and the Georgian Man’ by Matthew McCormack review

Shoes and the Georgian Man by Matthew McCormack follows the footprints left by changing fashions across late 18th-century and early 19th-century Britain.

Portrait of Juliette Récamier, by François Gérard, c. 1802-5. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. Public Domain.

‘Liberty, Equality, Fashion’ by Anne Higonnet review

In Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution, Anne Higonnet brings three dedicated followers of fashion to the fore.