The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals (1893)
Ecob, Helen Gilbert · New York, Fowler & Wells co. · leaf 122
t of a fashionablewoman. In the fourteenth century women painted,popped, and farded themselves, pulled the hair offthe forehead because high foreheads were thoughtbeautiful, and washed the hair in wine to changethe color. They also desired a slender and fair-shapen body. In the fifteenth century… … A scarf worn loosely about the shoulders and knotted & la CharlotteCorday is suited to slight figures. The Marie Antoinette fichu is a favoritewith artists. It preserves the outline of the figure and gives an appearanceof oneness between the upper and lower parts of the body. THE PEDIGREE OF…
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