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age of Queen Alexandra , although , says a writer of the period , “ it is not
everybody who can boast the swan - like throat of our graceful Queen , to which a
full , fluffy adornment is particularly suitable . ” The best feather boas were made ...
age of Queen Alexandra , although , says a writer of the period , “ it is not
everybody who can boast the swan - like throat of our graceful Queen , to which a
full , fluffy adornment is particularly suitable . ” The best feather boas were made ...
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By 1921 the extreme fullness of the skirt of the War period had disappeared , and
waists had disappeared with it . Corsets , in anything like the old sense of the
word , had gone , and any man who was young in the early nineteentwenties will
...
By 1921 the extreme fullness of the skirt of the War period had disappeared , and
waists had disappeared with it . Corsets , in anything like the old sense of the
word , had gone , and any man who was young in the early nineteentwenties will
...
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The period is too close ; he cannot yet pick out the essential line ; he cannot see
the wood for the trees . It must be a delusion that the dresses of the period from
1930 to the outbreak of the Second World War show no modifications , exhibit no
...
The period is too close ; he cannot yet pick out the essential line ; he cannot see
the wood for the trees . It must be a delusion that the dresses of the period from
1930 to the outbreak of the Second World War show no modifications , exhibit no
...
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CHAPTER PAGE I BACK NATURE AND THE GREEKS | 13 |
PRUDERY AND ROMANTICISM | 26 |
SENTIMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF THE BOURGEOISIE | 38 |
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adopted already appearance bathing became become began beginning blue called century chapter clothes coat collar colours completely considerable considered corset costume course curious décolletage decoration designers difficult dinner dress early effect eighteenth English entirely especially essential example extremely fact fashion female feminine figure French front garments hair hats head hips important influence interesting introduced kind lace ladies late least less longer look material middle mode narrow natural never nineties once ordinary Paris perhaps period petticoats played popular possible present reaching remained round satin seems seen short shows silk similar skirts sleeves social sometimes stockings style sufficient taste tennis thing thirties trimmed trousers twenties uniform usual velvet vogue waist wear whole wide woman women wore worn young