The science of taste: being a treatise on its principles (1879)
G. L · London, E. Stanford · leaf 245
227 PERSONAL ADORNMENT. for the perpetuation of capes — not capes coming right down the back, concealing the waist and pinning the arms to the sides (a, Fig. 101) or standing out like the skirt of a dancing dervaish (b), but capes properly cut, and falling to the figure, as in c. Red is our… … DIFFERENCES IN CAPE8. a sunless climate, its general adoption would denote the prevalence of a patriotic spirit. There unfortu- nately exists among ladies a deep-rooted aversion against being " copied " by the humbler classes ; an aversion to which the sterner sex is a stranger. Let me put it to…
Aesthetics
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