The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 226
draperies, the Indian ayahsgarb, or the wrapper-like dress of theJapanese woman. In commenting uponthese various clothes suggestions sheadds the succinct statement that Fash-ion herself is not so wild as the criticsand reformers of Fashion. Waist-belt and stays are radically thepoint of divergence… … val of these baleful articles is solely amatter of vanity. Women must indeedbe irrational and worthy the disdain ofthe most merciless misogynist if, sincethe early ages of creation, she has wil-fully clung, from motives of pure van-ity, to an arrangement which is said tobe calculated to defeat the…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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