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Beauty of form and grace of vesture (1892)

Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele, joint author · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 27

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. The love of dress, of colour, of choice fabrics, ofornament, is evidence of the desire of the humanmind to realize an ideal of excellence. Ignoranceand incapacity are answerable when the result isunsatisfactory. Women may and ought to makecharming pictures of themselves. All women try todo so, in… … Fig. 4. ent study of physical law and the rules of art.The contours of a natural form must take suchhighest place in regard that they shall be imitatedwith most hearty respect and veneration. The BEAUTY OF FORM. l9 essential qualities of the physique of a beautifulwoman must be recognized before…

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