Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 28
s ago, I have just BEAUTY OF FORM. 21 seen a fashionably dressed woman, and I admitthat the lines of her distorted figure, nevertheless,pleased me. Now whatis the matter with vie? The rhythm of twolines diverging and con-verging is most agree-able. We are consciousof this pleasure whenwe follow the… … Fig. 6. figure of to-day has undoubtedly these charms.Similar curves in a stout woman maygive the satisfaction we take in the ro-bust bulge of an odd jug, or the squatof a quaintly shaped bottle. All this maybe pleasing or otherwise in baked clay,but is out of place in a living woman. To carry the…
Beauty, Personal · Clothing and dress
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