Clothing for women : selection, design, construction : a practical manual for school and home (1916)
Baldt, Laura Irene · Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 79
taller than they are, while short women, if stout, appear shorter than they are. Our endeavor then must he to counteract one optical illusion by the substitution of another. The tall woman should adopt some mode that will increase her breadth, and so 'appear to decrease her height; likewise the… … displeasing effect of very sloping Fig' 22-silh°uettes of stout figure, shoulders may be overcome by horizontal lines brought high upon the waist and extending across the shoulder (Fig. 27, a.d. 1854). Plaids of striking color and broken up into large areas are admissible only on slender figures.…
Clothing and dress · Dressmaking · Sewing
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