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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... once realise - that beauty of form , like the colours of the prism , is non - existent except in our own eyes and minds . I do not , however , endorse it . I believe that there are abstract rules of beauty distinct from the charm of the ...
... once realise - that beauty of form , like the colours of the prism , is non - existent except in our own eyes and minds . I do not , however , endorse it . I believe that there are abstract rules of beauty distinct from the charm of the ...
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... once expressed the person , now it disguises it ; well , disguise may sometimes be necessary - but when dress carries its anatomical fictions as far as evasion may be carried , as far as false- hood , it ceases not only to be ...
... once expressed the person , now it disguises it ; well , disguise may sometimes be necessary - but when dress carries its anatomical fictions as far as evasion may be carried , as far as false- hood , it ceases not only to be ...
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... once see how principles that are bad in one place are also bad in another . The uncultured dress - maker , only longing for novelty , invents forms of attire that would be impossible were dress less utterly artificial than it is , and ...
... once see how principles that are bad in one place are also bad in another . The uncultured dress - maker , only longing for novelty , invents forms of attire that would be impossible were dress less utterly artificial than it is , and ...
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... once seen to be incapable of going over the head ; something that looks like a tunic in one place , yet in another is seen to have no lawful habitation nor a name ; a false apron ; a festoon that looks as though it had fallen ...
... once seen to be incapable of going over the head ; something that looks like a tunic in one place , yet in another is seen to have no lawful habitation nor a name ; a false apron ; a festoon that looks as though it had fallen ...
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... once beauteous Watteau ' costume , and the prevalent un- cleanliness , artificiality , ugliness , and waste of precious time , entered into his soul . He believed that a return to the simplicity of the earlier world was the only ...
... once beauteous Watteau ' costume , and the prevalent un- cleanliness , artificiality , ugliness , and waste of precious time , entered into his soul . He believed that a return to the simplicity of the earlier world was the only ...
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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