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Fabulous fashion inventions / Laura Hamilton Waxman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waxman, Laura Hamilton, author.
- Series:
- Awesome inventions you use every day.
- Awesome inventions you use every day
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fashion--History--Juvenile literature.
- Fashion.
- Inventions--History--Juvenile literature.
- Inventions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Did you realize that swimming suits used to weigh 22 pounds (about 10 kilograms)? Or that the first people to wear high heels were French royalty (even the king!) in the 1500s? Get ready to learn the amazing stories behind inventions you use every day. From the society woman who invented bras to the Swiss inventor who came up with the idea for Velcro, you'll find out how we got some of our favorite fashion inventions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5415-0665-0
- 1-5124-6010-9
- 1-4677-1646-4
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