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THE SHADE RANGE Book 1

By Ines Bellandi · 4 parts · 12 h 58 min · English

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New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Tokyo, 1886 to 1998. A pharmacy salesman gives away perfume to get a book read, and discovers that the free thing sells the paid thing. Over the next century that discovery hardens into an apparatus: a woman at a door with a case of samples, a woman at a counter with a hand held out for yours, a contract that rents three feet of a department store floor, and a gift that is not a gift. This is the history of the selling machine the American beauty industry built — demonstration, sampling, the gift with purchase, the leased counter — and of the customers it was never designed to see. Covers David H. McConnell, Elizabeth Arden, Helena Rubinstein, Maksymilian Faktorowicz, Madam C. J. Walker, and Estée Lauder.

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  1. Part 01

    2:41:31

  2. Part 02

    3:14:05

  3. Part 03

    3:26:39

  4. Part 04

    3:35:55

Books in this series

  1. THE SHADE RANGE Book 1

    4 parts · 12 h 58 min

  2. THE SHADE RANGE Book 2

    4 parts · 15 h 54 min

  3. THE SHADE RANGE Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 18 min

  4. THE SHADE RANGE Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 51 min

  5. THE SHADE RANGE Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 50 min

  6. THE SHADE RANGE Book 6

    4 parts · 17 h 10 min