Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele, joint author · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 28
canatone for bad construction.But, happily, no dress, how-ever poor, can make a well-proportioned, healthy bodylook mean or insignificant. Admiration of trimness offigure and clothing mustgive place to delight inreally beautiful proportions,and apparel fashioned on artistic principles.… … Fig- 5- 20 BEAUTY OF FORM. of that which is natural and symmetrical. Men-tal vision is distorted, taste debased. There is noparallel to this ignobleness, except in the follyand wickedness of the Chinese woman of rank, orthe savage South Sea Islander. This deliberatepreference of what is misshapen…
Beauty, Personal · Clothing and dress
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