Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 637
the waist, is excellentlysuited to the thin, as it supplies fulness without absolutely veilingcontours. 1003. ANGULARITY 16 ONLY disagreeable when the bones are large.With small bones a woman must be what we remember to have heardcalled viciously thin to look angular; but with large hips,… … EARLY ENGLISH. RUFF, AND LONG SPOON IN ELIZABETHS REIGN. Talks on the Toilet. 587 ing of flesh, a covering which very often in such cases makes all thedifference between a plain woman and a handsome. 1004. A VERY TALL MAN in a very short coat is only a degree lessridiculous than a very short man in…
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