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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Page 9
... feeling of disapprobation , but even a kind of phy- sical pain . Sometimes they might be unable to explain what affected them so unpleasantly , or how they were affected , but they feel an uneasy sense of oppression and discomfort ...
... feeling of disapprobation , but even a kind of phy- sical pain . Sometimes they might be unable to explain what affected them so unpleasantly , or how they were affected , but they feel an uneasy sense of oppression and discomfort ...
Page 10
... feeling again . This sense of oppres- sion would probably be neither understood nor believed in by the ordinary run of educated people , in England , at least . But it is very real to those whose passionate care for the beautiful makes ...
... feeling again . This sense of oppres- sion would probably be neither understood nor believed in by the ordinary run of educated people , in England , at least . But it is very real to those whose passionate care for the beautiful makes ...
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... to the impression one leaves on the eye , just as it is a fault to be indifferent to the feelings of others ; in either case there is a sad absence of those subtle and beautiful perceptions that constitute a 14 BEAUTY AND DRESS .
... to the impression one leaves on the eye , just as it is a fault to be indifferent to the feelings of others ; in either case there is a sad absence of those subtle and beautiful perceptions that constitute a 14 BEAUTY AND DRESS .
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... feeling for beauty nor education ? With regard to the milliner , ladies should rememb that by trusting to the milliner's ' taste ' ( ? ) they a merely playing into the hands of various tradesmen whose interest it is to sell their goods ...
... feeling for beauty nor education ? With regard to the milliner , ladies should rememb that by trusting to the milliner's ' taste ' ( ? ) they a merely playing into the hands of various tradesmen whose interest it is to sell their goods ...
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... feeling . And if M. Blanc can find so much significance in a sash and an apron , what cannot he twist from a bodice , with the many ornaments to which we have hitherto attached no importance ? All the different portions of the dress ...
... feeling . And if M. Blanc can find so much significance in a sash and an apron , what cannot he twist from a bodice , with the many ornaments to which we have hitherto attached no importance ? All the different portions of the dress ...
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æsthetic appearance artistic attire bashlyk beautiful becoming better blue bodice body bonnet British Museum century Cloth colour complexion conceal contradict the natural costume COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK crinoline cultivated dark decoration deformity delicate drawing by Holbein dress dull ears effect ETRUSCAN face false farthingale fashion feeling feet figure flowers folds garment girl gown grace Greek green hair Half Calf head head-dress hint Invisible Joanna JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY kind lace ladies LADY BERKELEY less light look means mediæval melan mind modern morality mother natural lines neck never ornament paint pale patterns perhaps persons picturesque pink plaits pretty pretty woman PRIME PAGE purple Quentin Matsys seen shade Sheep shoe Sir Charles Eastlake skirt sleeve stola taste thing thought tight tint trimming ugly veil Visible vulgar waist walls Watteau wear whilst woman women worn yellow