Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present DayG. G. Harrap Limited, 1945 - 232 páginas |
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... silk collars , white silk linings , and so forth , which attempt to beautify this monstrosity as a hangman might wreathe his gallows with roses . The plainer the manner in which you wear your misery the better . Then again , the black ...
... silk collars , white silk linings , and so forth , which attempt to beautify this monstrosity as a hangman might wreathe his gallows with roses . The plainer the manner in which you wear your misery the better . Then again , the black ...
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... silk and partly transparent , had been usual up to the year 1924. In that year every woman's stockings suddenly became flesh - coloured : also , they had to be of silk , or at least of artificial silk , and they had to be drawn very ...
... silk and partly transparent , had been usual up to the year 1924. In that year every woman's stockings suddenly became flesh - coloured : also , they had to be of silk , or at least of artificial silk , and they had to be drawn very ...
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... silk stockings were expensive enough , if one took into consideration the very small amount of wear which could be got out of them . Perhaps never before had so much money been spent on women's leg - coverings , and a whole new erotic ...
... silk stockings were expensive enough , if one took into consideration the very small amount of wear which could be got out of them . Perhaps never before had so much money been spent on women's leg - coverings , and a whole new erotic ...
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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