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There is no disputing about taste , ” says the Latin tag familiar to every schoolboy
; yet few of us would be willing to admit without argument that another man ' s
taste is as good as our own . In point of fact there is and must be a very ...
There is no disputing about taste , ” says the Latin tag familiar to every schoolboy
; yet few of us would be willing to admit without argument that another man ' s
taste is as good as our own . In point of fact there is and must be a very ...
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Most of us believe , subconsciously or not , that from the first there have been true
believers and heretics , even in matters of taste . Yet taste , when we study its
history , seems to be a fluctuating and changing thing constantly devetoping ...
Most of us believe , subconsciously or not , that from the first there have been true
believers and heretics , even in matters of taste . Yet taste , when we study its
history , seems to be a fluctuating and changing thing constantly devetoping ...
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Now an admiration for Regency furniture is almost a test of good taste . It is plain
that as we move forward in time the black patch of bad taste moves after us ,
separated from us always by an almost constant number of years . There is , in
short ...
Now an admiration for Regency furniture is almost a test of good taste . It is plain
that as we move forward in time the black patch of bad taste moves after us ,
separated from us always by an almost constant number of years . There is , in
short ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I Back to NATURE AND THE GREEKS | 13 |
PRUDERY AND ROMANTICISM | 28 |
SENTIMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF THE BOURGEOISIE | 45 |
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Taste and Fashion - From the French Revolution to the Present Day James Laver Vista previa restringida - 2013 |
Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present Day James Laver Vista de fragmentos - 1945 |
Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present Day James Laver Vista de fragmentos - 1945 |
Términos y frases comunes
adopted already appearance bathing became become began beginning blouse blue bonnet called century chapter clothes coat collar colours completely considered consisted corset costume course curious décolletage decoration designers dinner dress early effect eighteenth century elaborate England English entirely essential extremely fact fashion female feminine figure flowers French front garments growing hair hats head hips important influence interesting introduced kind lace ladies least less longer look material middle mode narrow natural necessary neck never nineties once ordinary Paris perhaps period played popular position possible present reaching remained round satin seems seen short shoulders shows side silk similar skirts sleeves social sometimes stockings sufficient taste tennis thing tion trimmed twenties uniform usual vogue waist wear whole wide woman women wore worn young