Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 166
ART IN ORNAMENT AND DRESS. 152 despotism of custom, makes itself felt, for tlie most delicate creatures, girls whose imperfectly developed figure show their tender age, are condemned by women anxious to conceal their own waning youth to wear low bodices and bare arms. It is true that muslin… … LOW ROUNDED BODICE. habit-shirts, and (by elderly women) lace tippets are sometimes worn, to veil the disclosures made by the open bodice. But how many trifles scarcely noticed by men add to the impression made upon them by a woman’s dress ! What an air of naïveté and innocence is produced by a…
Clothing and dress · Decoration and ornament · Fashion and art
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