Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 175
PERSONAL ADORNMENT. 161 lines. It is, then, natural that they should be peripheric, that is annular, and that they should match the shape of the neck by reproducing its roundness, thus resembling the astragal below the Grecian capital. There are some imposing persons whose powerful and rigid necks… … GABRIELLE RUFF AND PUFFED SLEEVES. the implantation of the Doric column : they should wear light collars and ruffs, to restore feminine characteristics to their manly proportions. Others, with slender throats, resembling Ionic columns, display this flexibility by lowering their collars ; but, if…
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