The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (1809)
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 · London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ... · leaf 231
a lady who freely unbosoms her-self to all around her? in such anone, bash fulness is afiectation, andmodesty a farce. * The full dress given in this number,is not at all a f.iir specimen of haui ton;it should be very much lower, and moresquare in the front, and the sleeves muchsmaller; indeed, a… … MEBICATi REPORT. 181 The Eastern ladies, cvTn whereIhe climate seems to give a licenceto exposure, and whore the stand-ard of morals is not verj liigli, aretoo great adepts in the arts of at-traction to adopt this course. TheTurkish and Persian dresses arecomposed on the principle of con-cealment;…
Fashion · Art, Decorative
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