Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present DayG. G. Harrap Limited, 1945 - 232 páginas |
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... less tendency to stereotype itself into a uniform — a tendency which is the most striking characteristic of male dress throughout the ages . Also , women are willing to put up with much more inconvenience in order to be in the fashion ...
... less tendency to stereotype itself into a uniform — a tendency which is the most striking characteristic of male dress throughout the ages . Also , women are willing to put up with much more inconvenience in order to be in the fashion ...
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... less the same period . But the natural tendency of female dress is quite different , and , indeed , opposed . We have dealt in the first chapter with the adoption by practi- cally the whole of European men in the early years of the nine ...
... less the same period . But the natural tendency of female dress is quite different , and , indeed , opposed . We have dealt in the first chapter with the adoption by practi- cally the whole of European men in the early years of the nine ...
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... less and less attractive , owing to the use of poorer material and because they are less skilfully made . A fashion , therefore , very quickly becomes dowdy , and this is sufficient to induce women who can afford it to change it as ...
... less and less attractive , owing to the use of poorer material and because they are less skilfully made . A fashion , therefore , very quickly becomes dowdy , and this is sufficient to induce women who can afford it to change it as ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I BACK TO NATURE AND THE GREEKS | 13 |
PRUDERY AND ROMANTICISM | 26 |
SENTIMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF THE BOURGEOISIE | 38 |
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Términos y frases comunes
adopted æsthetic appearance bathing costumes became become began blouse blue bodice boléro bonnet brassière brim busk bust chapter cloche hat clothes coat coiffure collar colours contemporary corset crêpe crêpe de Chine crinoline curious day dresses décolletage dinner jacket Directoire effect eighteenth century elaborate English Esthetic extremely fact fashion journals fashion plates favourite female feminine French French Revolution frills front garments gowns hair hats hips hobble skirt influence interior decoration invented kind knee knickerbockers lace ladies lounge suit male material middle mode modern never nineteen-twenties nineties pale Paris Paul Poiret perhaps period petticoats pink plus-fours popular Revolution Romantic round sable satin Schéhérazade sealskin Second Empire seems seen short skirts shoulders shows silk skating sleeves sometimes sport style taffetas tail-coat taste tendency tennis tight tight-lacing toilette trimmed trousers twenties underneath uniform velvet vogue waist waistcoat wear whole woman women women's dress wore worn