Jaros Hygienic Wear sets out the therapeutic and prophylactic claims for a brand of health-conscious clothing, part of the late nineteenth-century movement linking dress to bodily wellbeing. It promotes garments designed on hygienic principles, presenting fashion and health as intertwined.
The work reflects the era’s fascination with dress reform, hygiene, and the supposed medical benefits of particular fabrics and cuts. As both advertisement and tract, it documents period anxieties about the body and clothing. A revealing artifact of the dress-and-health movement, it is offered here as a free EPUB download.