The science of taste: being a treatise on its principles (1879)
G. L · London, E. Stanford · leaf 201
PEESONAL ADORNMENT. 183 making the feet look small. Both these desirable characteristics will be developed in reality by a little Fig. 75. … THE PARISIAN CUT. attention to healthy exercise, proper ventilation, and such like ; but their simulation Fig. 76. is nonsensical. Notwithstanding their gigantic head -gear, foot- guards look no taller than metro- politan constables ; and nothing is more ridiculous than to conceal all but the tip…
Aesthetics
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