About the Author

Valerie Steele is chief curator and acting director, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She is founder and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. Among her many publications are Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now (ISBN 0 300 08738 1, pb. 15.00) and China Chic: East Meets West (with John S. Major) (ISBN 0 300 07930 3, 35.00), both published by Yale University Press.

Reviews

"Obligatory reading for fashion historians."

"The Corset is at once couture eye candy and intellectually enlightening."

"This is cultural scholarship and social history at its absolute best."