Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution Until To-dayG. G. Harrap Limited, 1938 - 271 páginas |
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... taste or flavour of an epoch . Beardsley , with his black candles , his ambiguous elegance , his leering faces , hangs like a shadow over the whole decade , which was also , if we but care to remember it , the decade of Kipling and ...
... taste or flavour of an epoch . Beardsley , with his black candles , his ambiguous elegance , his leering faces , hangs like a shadow over the whole decade , which was also , if we but care to remember it , the decade of Kipling and ...
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... Taste for the refine , ments of the eighteenth century had led all women into a sort of deliquescence , and , on the pretence of being distinguished , all vitality had been suppressed . Nuances of ' nymph's thigh , ' lilacs , swooning ...
... Taste for the refine , ments of the eighteenth century had led all women into a sort of deliquescence , and , on the pretence of being distinguished , all vitality had been suppressed . Nuances of ' nymph's thigh , ' lilacs , swooning ...
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... taste . " " " There is no disputing about taste , " says the Latin7 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 ...
... taste . " " " There is no disputing about taste , " says the Latin7 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 ...
Índice
CHAPTER PAGE | 13 |
PRUDERY AND ROMANTICISM | 28 |
SENTIMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF | 45 |
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adopted æsthetic appearance Ballet bathing costumes became become began blouse blue bodice boléro bonnet brassière brim busk bust chapter chiffon cloche cloche hat clothes coat coiffure collar colour corset crêpe crêpe de Chine crinoline curious day dresses décolletage dinner jacket Directoire early effect eighteenth century English extremely fact fashion plates favour favourite female feminine French French Revolution frills front garments Georges Lepape gowns hair hairdressing hats head hips hobble skirt influence Irish crochet kind knee knickerbockers lace ladies lounge suit material middle mode modern narrow neck never nineteenth century nineties ordinary Paris Paul Poiret perhaps period petticoats pink Poiret popular Revolution round Russian satin Schéhérazade sealskin Second Empire seems seen short skirts shoulders shows silk skating sleeves sometimes taffetas taste tendency tennis tight tion trimmed trousers uniform velvet Victorian vogue waist waistcoat wear woman women women's dress wore worn