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The Changing Perception of Fashion

London, England
1945 JL4510

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Actions
   Laver's Law expressed as a graphic table (1).

Commentary
   Changing attitudes about bikinis are discussed in The Garden of Eden, the first page of the Bikini Science Times.

Source
   From James Laver, Taste and Fashion, from the French Revolution to Today, G. G. Harrap, London, 1945. Reproduced in Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1981, p. 7. 1 picture.
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