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Shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award

Included on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List

Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category


Did you know that:
• in some parts of sixteenth-century Europe, men wore their beards so long that they had to wrap the ends around their waists like a belt to be able to walk?
• the high heel shoe caught on because it was the perfect solution to the problem of hopelessly muddy and waste-filled streets in cities like London and Paris?
• women have, at various times, used soot, ground ants’ eggs, beet juice, and poisonous lead as makeup?

Throughout history we have bound our feet until they broke, piled our necks with jewelry until our chests collapsed, cinched our waists in corsets until we couldn’t breathe. Why do we do these things to

From Head to Toe Bound Feet Bathing Suits and

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    A Paperback / softback by Janice Weaver, Francis Blake

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      Publisher Tundra Books
      Published 30 September 2003
      ISBN-13 9780887766541
      978-0887766541
      ISBN-10 0887766544

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award

      Included on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List

      Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category


      Did you know that:
      • in some parts of sixteenth-century Europe, men wore their beards so long that they had to wrap the ends around their waists like a belt to be able to walk?
      • the high heel shoe caught on because it was the perfect solution to the problem of hopelessly muddy and waste-filled streets in cities like London and Paris?
      • women have, at various times, used soot, ground ants’ eggs, beet juice, and poisonous lead as makeup?

      Throughout history we have bound our feet until they broke, piled our necks with jewelry until our chests collapsed, cinched our waists in corsets until we couldn’t breathe. Why do we do these things to

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