Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 (1898)
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Loyd, Mary Sophia Hely-Hutchinson, 1853-1936, Courboin, François, 1865-1926 · London, W. Heinemann · leaf 143
quent to the Emperors second marriage, andnotice the manner in which Napoleon contrived tomaintain the supremacy of French taste in dress. But all these studies and researches, frivolous asthey may seem, would carry us too far. A wholevolume would scarcely suffice to contain the minutedescriptions,… … 1814 64 FASHION IN PARIS its ever-changing beauties ? There is no doubt that literary style mayhave its sex—that grace and flexibility are the special gifts of woman—and it is some gifted woman who should set herself the task of limningthe fleeting charms of Fashion, a matter so inseparably bound…
Fashion · Costume
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