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The art & ethics of dress (1915)

Farnsworth, Eva Olney · San Francisco, Cal., P. Elder & company · leaf 74

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secret of his art, I amassured that one may safely follow him.These three phrases, when thoroughly un-derstood, will mean the solution of thedress problem in the narrow sense ofouter clothing,—excellence of material,simplicity of design, conservative fash-ions. It means careful buying, proprietyof… … To be conspicuously elegant presupposes a cultivatedbody. But the secret of economy and art in dresslies in the selection of suitable materials, simple de-signs and conservative fashions. BEAUTY enough in the perfection of his manu-factured articles to do for women what isalready done for men. When…

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