The Art of BeautyDescriptions of dress, make-up, hair fashion, and physical beauty reflect the strict code of behavior regarding appearance in Victorian England. |
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appearance artistic beautiful becoming better blue bodice body called century close Cloth colour complexion conceal considered costume covered dark decoration delicate drawing dress effect England equally extreme face fashion feeling feet figure flowers folds foot girl give graceful Greek green hair half hands head head-dress human kind ladies least less light lines look lost material means mind moral mother natural neck never once originality ornament paint pale patterns perfect perhaps persons position present pretty probably pure reason seems seen sense shade shape shoe simple skirt sleeve sometimes taste thing thought tint ugly veil Visible waist walls wear whilst whole woman women yellow young
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Art of Beauty Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks Online access: Gale |
| Author | Mary Eliza Joy Haweis |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus, 1878 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 298 pages |
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