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 250
manifestation of inward self-control is circumscribed by dress. However freemay be her soul, there can be no bodily expres-sion of freedom. Moreover, the principal restric-tion comes at the crucial point where gracedemands absolute liberty. The spinal column isthe pivot on which the body should… … THE GOLDEN STAIRS. BY E. BURNE-JONES. A study in grace of form and subtlety of motion. GRACE IN MOTION. 203 Miss Call says : Each vertebra should be so dis-tinctly and individually independent from everyother, that the spine is like the toy snakes, jointedso that Ave take the tail with the fingers…
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