Compacts and Smoking Accessories

By Roseann Ettinger

Book Overview

Cosmetics and tobacco are two of the 20th century's most fascinating fashion influences, for they inspired new accessories for the well-dressed woman. This book highlights the evolution of popular vanity cases by investigating materials from compact, cigarette case and lighter manufacturers. The book begins with a history of cosmetics, and their impact on society, and goes on to show how compacts evolved to hold cosmetics and who fashioned them. The tobacco-related containers are also traced from their beginnings to the establishment of a new line of accessories for both men and women. Through her newly revised text and hundreds of color photographs and advertising pieces of examples arranged chronologically, the author provides a wealth of information in this growing collector's field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887403719
• ISBN13: 9780887403712
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.