Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present DayG. G. Harrap Limited, 1945 - 232 páginas |
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... young Queen seemed to have made no sort of difference whatever . How should a young girl of merely eighteen , even if she wore a crown , stem the torrent of extravagance and convert that half of Society which had grown up during the ...
... young Queen seemed to have made no sort of difference whatever . How should a young girl of merely eighteen , even if she wore a crown , stem the torrent of extravagance and convert that half of Society which had grown up during the ...
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... young girl . The modes of the period required a woman to be tall and statuesque , full - bosomed , with the bust thrown forward by the action of the S - shaped corset . It is a curious fact that even the English chorus girls conformed ...
... young girl . The modes of the period required a woman to be tall and statuesque , full - bosomed , with the bust thrown forward by the action of the S - shaped corset . It is a curious fact that even the English chorus girls conformed ...
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... young which had been considered a duty of parents from time immemorial . . London was first entertained and then scandalized by the doings of a body of people known as the Bright Young Things . Their activities culminated in a symbolic ...
... young which had been considered a duty of parents from time immemorial . . London was first entertained and then scandalized by the doings of a body of people known as the Bright Young Things . Their activities culminated in a symbolic ...
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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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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