Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 217
hints for our own guidance. It has beenextolled, of late, by artists as the most gracefuldress worn since the classical period. Its chiefcharacteristic was its simplicity. It was majesticonly when a court train was added, as in Rheasdress as Josephine in coronation robes. Sir JoshuaReynolds and a… … 79- type of woman, whose curves are of the gentlest.It will not obscure the glory of the woman of loftycarriage and faultless proportions. While the Empire Dress may offer good sugges- BEAUTY OF FORM. 211 tions, it cannot be copied without careful thought.Indeed, no example, ancient or modern, can…
Beauty, Personal · Clothing and dress
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