Fabulously gory and gruesome fashion victims takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the lethal history of womens mens and childrens dress in myth and reality drawing upon surviving fashion objects and numerous visual and textual sources encompassing louse ridden military uniforms accounts of the fiery deaths of oscar wildes half sisters and dancer isadora duncans accidental strangulation by entangled scarf the book explores how garments have tormented those who made and wo