The business of beauty : gender and the body in modern London /
Clark, Jessica P.,
The business of beauty : gender and the body in modern London / Jessica P. Clark. - First edition. - 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Backmewsy' Beauty: Agnes Headman and Aim�ee Lloyd -- 3. Upstarts and Outliers: Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson -- 4. Mobilizing Men: Robert Douglas and H.P. Truefitt -- 5. Professionalizing Perfumery: Eug�ene Rimmel -- 6. Female Enterprise at the Fin-de-Si�ecle: Jeannette Pomeroy -- 7. From Beauty Culturist to Beauty Magnate: Helena Rubinstein -- Epilogue -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
"The Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Illuminating national and cultural contingencies specific to London as a global metropolis, it makes an important intervention by challenging the view of those who-like their historical contemporaries-perceive the 19th and early 20th centuries as devoid of beauty praxis, let alone a commercial beauty culture. Contrary to this perception, The Business of Beauty reveals that Victorian and Edwardian women and men developed a number of tacit strategies to transform their looks including the purchase of new goods and services from a heterogeneous group of urban entrepreneurs: hairdressers, barbers, perfumers, wigmakers, complexion specialists, hair-restorers, manicurists, and beauty "culturists.' Mining trade journals, census data, periodical print, and advice literature, Jessica P. Clark takes us on a journey through Victorian and Edwardian London's beauty businesses, from the shady back parlors of Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson to the elegant showrooms of Eug�ene Rimmel into the first Mayfair salon of Mrs. Helena Titus, aka Helena Rubinstein. By revealing these stories, Jessica P. Clark revises traditional chronologies of British beauty consumption and provides the historical background to 20th-century developments led by Rubinstein and others. Weaving together histories of gender, fashion, and business to investigate the ways that Victorian critiques of self-fashioning and beautification defined both the buying and selling of beauty goods, this is a revealing resource for scholars, students, fashion followers, and beauty enthusiasts alike."-
9781350098541 135009854X 9781350098534 1350098531 9781350098527 1350098523
10.5040/9781350098541 doi
6005555 Proquest Ebook Central
GBC020063 bnb
019703983 Uk
1800-1899
1800-1999
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--History--England--London--19th century.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects--History--England--London--19th century.
Beauty, Personal--Economic aspects--History--England--London--19th century.
Beauty culture--England--London.
History of fashion.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects
Beauty culture
Beauty, Personal
Fashion
England
England--London
History
HQ1220.G7 / C53 2020eb TT504.6.G7 / C433 2020eb
391.00942109034
The business of beauty : gender and the body in modern London / Jessica P. Clark. - First edition. - 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Backmewsy' Beauty: Agnes Headman and Aim�ee Lloyd -- 3. Upstarts and Outliers: Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson -- 4. Mobilizing Men: Robert Douglas and H.P. Truefitt -- 5. Professionalizing Perfumery: Eug�ene Rimmel -- 6. Female Enterprise at the Fin-de-Si�ecle: Jeannette Pomeroy -- 7. From Beauty Culturist to Beauty Magnate: Helena Rubinstein -- Epilogue -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
"The Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Illuminating national and cultural contingencies specific to London as a global metropolis, it makes an important intervention by challenging the view of those who-like their historical contemporaries-perceive the 19th and early 20th centuries as devoid of beauty praxis, let alone a commercial beauty culture. Contrary to this perception, The Business of Beauty reveals that Victorian and Edwardian women and men developed a number of tacit strategies to transform their looks including the purchase of new goods and services from a heterogeneous group of urban entrepreneurs: hairdressers, barbers, perfumers, wigmakers, complexion specialists, hair-restorers, manicurists, and beauty "culturists.' Mining trade journals, census data, periodical print, and advice literature, Jessica P. Clark takes us on a journey through Victorian and Edwardian London's beauty businesses, from the shady back parlors of Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson to the elegant showrooms of Eug�ene Rimmel into the first Mayfair salon of Mrs. Helena Titus, aka Helena Rubinstein. By revealing these stories, Jessica P. Clark revises traditional chronologies of British beauty consumption and provides the historical background to 20th-century developments led by Rubinstein and others. Weaving together histories of gender, fashion, and business to investigate the ways that Victorian critiques of self-fashioning and beautification defined both the buying and selling of beauty goods, this is a revealing resource for scholars, students, fashion followers, and beauty enthusiasts alike."-
9781350098541 135009854X 9781350098534 1350098531 9781350098527 1350098523
10.5040/9781350098541 doi
6005555 Proquest Ebook Central
GBC020063 bnb
019703983 Uk
1800-1899
1800-1999
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--History--England--London--19th century.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects--History--England--London--19th century.
Beauty, Personal--Economic aspects--History--England--London--19th century.
Beauty culture--England--London.
History of fashion.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects
Beauty culture
Beauty, Personal
Fashion
England
England--London
History
HQ1220.G7 / C53 2020eb TT504.6.G7 / C433 2020eb
391.00942109034