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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 199

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- be en-riched with pearl beads. A transparent texturepowdered with a design in beads, will be a charm- BEAUTY OF FORM. 191 ing decoration for the front of a dress from collarto ankle, or an elegant head-covering for the even-ing. The embroidery of Turkish towels is a goodmaterial well combined for… … illlli1IVliil!|lfi1iWW^^^^^^^^ Most of the matchlesscreations of ancient sculp-ture represent maturewomanhood. The full,grand, stately curves ofthe Venus di Milo do notcome earlier in life thanthirty years (Fig. 8). Aliving woman, to resem-Fig. 70. ble her, must weigh one hundred and sixty pounds,…

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