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Some evening dresses made it necessary , if a woman wished to appear neat
and show no shoulder - strap , to wear only knickers and a petticoat and above
this a brassière , with a specially designed system of straps so that nothing
passed ...
Some evening dresses made it necessary , if a woman wished to appear neat
and show no shoulder - strap , to wear only knickers and a petticoat and above
this a brassière , with a specially designed system of straps so that nothing
passed ...
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By the middle of the twenties skirts had become so very short that to wear them
on a cycle was hardly decent . The end of the twenties saw a widespread
adoption , in England at any rate , of shorts for cycling , and nowadays the great
majority ...
By the middle of the twenties skirts had become so very short that to wear them
on a cycle was hardly decent . The end of the twenties saw a widespread
adoption , in England at any rate , of shorts for cycling , and nowadays the great
majority ...
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The modern law - court is a strange anomaly , for while the judge wears a stylized
full - bottomed wig of the early eighteenth century , the barristers wear stylized
late eighteenth - century wigs , and they both wear with them gowns which have ...
The modern law - court is a strange anomaly , for while the judge wears a stylized
full - bottomed wig of the early eighteenth century , the barristers wear stylized
late eighteenth - century wigs , and they both wear with them gowns which have ...
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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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