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Beauty of form and grace of vesture (1892)

Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 111

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ooth cover- BEAUTY OF FORM. lOJ ing to a wooden dummy than to drape a breath-ing, elastic woman. That the tailor fit shouldcontinue to be popular is, of course, directly inthe interest of those thousands who are, or thinkthey are, unable to produce something better.There is no other way open for… … Fig. 33- It is always to be re-membered that folds, withtheir ever-changing shapeand play of light andshadow, are more beauti-ful than an}thing else, ex-cept that perfection ofform which is rarel} found,and which, if possessed,is poetized by drapery. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, in the London ArtJournal,…

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