Beauty of form and grace of vesture . sult. Along mirror, even if narrow, is almost a necessity. A long neck, sloping shoulders, not too wide,a flat back, a round chest, ample hips, — tlicse arecharacteristics of a beautiful woman; hence, any-thing that apparently shortens the neck, addswidth or height to the shoulders, roundness to io6 BEAUTY OF FORM. the back, or flatness to the chest, should not beincluded in the dress plan. If the throat is too long for good proportion,shoulder puffs, if they donot add breadth, mayunite with other devicesto conceal the generally it is a sen-
Beauty of form and grace of vesture . sult. Along mirror, even if narrow, is almost a necessity. A long neck, sloping shoulders, not too wide,a flat back, a round chest, ample hips, — tlicse arecharacteristics of a beautiful woman; hence, any-thing that apparently shortens the neck, addswidth or height to the shoulders, roundness to io6 BEAUTY OF FORM. the back, or flatness to the chest, should not beincluded in the dress plan. If the throat is too long for good proportion,shoulder puffs, if they donot add breadth, mayunite with other devicesto conceal the generally it is a sen-sible subtraction fromthe sum of beauty whenthe slioulder-line, meltinginto the arm, is hiddenby gathers that standabove it, especially asthey usually add amasculine width to theshoulders. If the body is too longfor the legs, setting theso-called waist-line highwill do something tocorrect the dispropor-^:^ ticn. If the legsare too long for thebody, the lines of the upper part of the dressshould be so arranged as to conceal the high.
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