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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... SIMPLE 84. ' CHIPPENDALE ' FINE ART 156 FASHIONABLE LADIES IN 1780 157 173 242 85. SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY CABINET 245 86. THE UPHOLSTERER'S DARLING 246 87. STRONG - MINDED YOUNG LADY 88. FASHION'S SLAVE 89. SEEMLY OR SLATTERNLY ? 90 ...
... SIMPLE 84. ' CHIPPENDALE ' FINE ART 156 FASHIONABLE LADIES IN 1780 157 173 242 85. SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY CABINET 245 86. THE UPHOLSTERER'S DARLING 246 87. STRONG - MINDED YOUNG LADY 88. FASHION'S SLAVE 89. SEEMLY OR SLATTERNLY ? 90 ...
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... so unpleasantly , or how they were affected , but they feel an uneasy sense of oppression and discomfort - they would fain flee away , and let the simple skies or the moon with her sweet stare , PAIN OF UGLINESS . 9 PAIN OF UGLINESS.
... so unpleasantly , or how they were affected , but they feel an uneasy sense of oppression and discomfort - they would fain flee away , and let the simple skies or the moon with her sweet stare , PAIN OF UGLINESS . 9 PAIN OF UGLINESS.
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Mary Eliza Joy Haweis. simple skies or the moon with her sweet stare , soothe them into healthy feeling again . This sense of oppres- sion would probably be neither understood nor believed in by the ordinary run of educated people , in ...
Mary Eliza Joy Haweis. simple skies or the moon with her sweet stare , soothe them into healthy feeling again . This sense of oppres- sion would probably be neither understood nor believed in by the ordinary run of educated people , in ...
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... simple fashion of our forefathers . We want it more to express than to hide us . A clever craftswoman must cut it to the approved shape , and sew it into form ; it must be clothed upon with other and richer fabrics , which we call ...
... simple fashion of our forefathers . We want it more to express than to hide us . A clever craftswoman must cut it to the approved shape , and sew it into form ; it must be clothed upon with other and richer fabrics , which we call ...
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... simple laws about the right and wrong - call it morality if you will - of dress , I notice , firstly , the morality of what we wear , which includes the questions of decency and indecency in dress ; secondly , the morality of how we ...
... simple laws about the right and wrong - call it morality if you will - of dress , I notice , firstly , the morality of what we wear , which includes the questions of decency and indecency in dress ; secondly , the morality of how we ...
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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