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Medical practitioners once labelled the v-necked top, now a standard style, the pneumonia neckline'. Well over a millennium later immodest dress ranked high in Jesuit Father Bernard Vaughan's book on the sins of society. In 747 St Boniface deemed wide stripes and scarlet borders to incite lust and ruination of the soul. Providing a sharp and humorous look at the outright risqué as well as the grotesquely exaggerated and even the repulsive, Ribeiro shows how dress has functioned variously as a vehicle of righteousness or turpitude and as an expression of sexuality, class or social status. Highlighting the times when choice of dress was a moral minefield, this enlightening and entertaining book looks at fashion extremes over the centuries, from the sexual display of the codpiece through to corsets, crinolines and décolletage. Moralists have raged throughout history against various fashions for being too short, too long, too tight, too loose or too costly.

The Art of Dress by Aileen Ribeiro