Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History

This illustrated history examines clothing and fashion practices that harmed both wearers and workers. Sixteen brief chapters cover risks from headwear to clothing and footwear. Cases include mercury in hat production, arsenic-containing green dye, radium products, fatal accidents involving scarves and high heels, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and denim sandblasting linked to silicosis. Archival photographs and illustrations accompany a bibliography and index.