Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange), 1858-1918 · Boston, Arena Pub. Co. · leaf 15
y suggestive of a moving circustent. During this era four or livefashionably dressed women completely\ filled an ordinary drawing-room; whilethe sidewalk was often practically mo-nopolized by moving monstrosities,save when in front or behindthe formidable swinging cagesmoved escorts, who withno… … But fashion is nothing if not changeable; fancy not artguides her mind. What to-day types beauty, is by herown voice to-morrow voted indecent and absurd. Thus wefind in the period extending from 1870 to 1875 an entirelynew but none the less ridiculous or injurious extreme pre-vails. The wonderful…
Clothing and dress
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