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 225
and the perfect proportions of anideal figure. This higher power of appreciation israre, because it accompanies high intellectual andspiritual development. Reason, analytical power,imagination, and purity of heart are elements nec-essary to aesthetic insight. We shall make no progress in correct… … VENUS OF MILO. Here we have the embodiment of an ideal form. The Venus of Milo givesus the true proportions of the feminine body and is also the type of healthfulmuscular development. The tendency to corpulency among women in middlelife is an indication of disease. The remedy for this disease is…
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