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The magic of dress (1911)

Gould, Grace Margaret. [from old catalog] · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 136

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its revenge. Insteadof softening the features, it only brings outthe lines of age more sharply, and makes theface glare out as ghastly as a death mask.Indeed, such a face is a mask and no one knowsit better than the woman behind it. She neverdares to let her face express an emotion, forshe realizes… … \/ What a caricature she makes of herself — this icoman who is groiring old^^ DRESS IN ITS RELATION TO AGE 113 Who would care to preserve this picture,to hand it down as a sacred heirloom? Old age, however, has its styles and fashionsthat rightfully belong to it — the dress whichhas grown old with…

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