Explore fashion history with legs at centre stage-from the dawn of civilisation through current-day trends. This book examines society’s role in moving hemlines and in shaping legcentric traditions throughout history. What has changed or stayed the same in the course of fashion eras? How have legs appeared in dance, sport, performance, pageantry, and conventional or outre outfits? Find out how athletics, depictions in literature and art, and motifs in advertising and films reflect our changing times. Discover the styles, attitudes, customs, sex appeal, socially acceptable postures and walks, and more in this comprehensive view of leg fashions through the ages. Enjoy fashions from the waist down from today and yesterday through 319 striking images explained in their historic context. AUTHOR: Jane Merrill has published in 50 national magazines, including The New Republic, New York, Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, Connoisseur, Town & Country, Harvard, and History. Her studies were at Wellesley, Harvard, and Columbia, and she has written books on popular culture, beauty, lifestyle, and self-help. The latest of these, ‘I Love Those Earrings’, is written with Chris Filstrup of the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
Keren Ben-Horin has a BA in Fashion Design from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel. She has a master’s in fashion studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology and was guest assistant curator of the exhibition Lady of the Daisies at Design Museum Holon. Keren is the founder of the blog On Pins & Needles.
Iran-born Nasser K segued from a performer and director in the Boston area to a documentary photographer who exhibits in museums and galleries. 319 b/w and colour photos