Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 106
w bending room. The lower part of the figure should suggest thestructural truth. Drapery that expresses and yetconceals natural form is beautiful; while form con-stantly displayed, without reserve, is indelicate. Individual fancy is to govern all details. Themain requisites are loose garments in… … shouldrise andfall with every re-I spiration. Lateine a s u r e m e n t s\ taken among thewomen of savagetribes and semi-civilized nationsprove that wo-man naturallybreathes, as mandoes, with the abdomen. Thetrunk below the breast-boneshould be sinuous, or it is un-graceful. It should be…
Beauty, Personal · Clothing and dress
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