Fashions In Hair

Richard Corson

The definitive text on hair fashions through the ages is back.This revised edition has 16 new pages by fashion historian Caroline Cox to bring hair fashions up to the present day This is the first to attempt a comprehensive historical survey of men's and women s hair styles through the ages, from Ancient Egypt through Greece, Egypt, Rome and Anglo-Saxon times to recent trends in fashion. It is now an essential work of reference. Containing well over 3000 illustrations based on many years of research by the author this is an essential handbook for theatrical designers and hair artists, illustrators and beauty consultants and all those interested in the changing fashions in hair and will entertain and educate the general reader as well as historians of fashion. A companion piece to both Fashions In Make-Up and the forthcoming Fashions In Eyeglasses.

RICHARD CORSON taught theatrical makeup in colleges and universities throughout the United States and worked as a theatrical makeup consultant. His book, Stage Makeup, has become the standard text on the subject, while his three valuable social histories, Fashions in Makeup, Fashions in Hair and Fashions in Eyeglasses, all published by Peter Owen, are renowned as classics in their field.