The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . winter they should be of warm material. The woman who would be well dressed has nouse for fashion-plates. Her text-books are theworks of ancient and modern sculpture; the clas-sicism of Flaxman, Canova, and David; the studyof picturesque art. We must, however, distinguishbetween pictures which are historical and thosewhich are ideal. The works of Paul Veronese, forexample, represent the dress of a bad period of costumes of great masters, however good, are,moreover, not to be s
The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . winter they should be of warm material. The woman who would be well dressed has nouse for fashion-plates. Her text-books are theworks of ancient and modern sculpture; the clas-sicism of Flaxman, Canova, and David; the studyof picturesque art. We must, however, distinguishbetween pictures which are historical and thosewhich are ideal. The works of Paul Veronese, forexample, represent the dress of a bad period of costumes of great masters, however good, are,moreover, not to be servilely copied. Cold andformal imitation may well be left to the Chinese., These works are simply studies for the cultivationof individual taste. Guided by such studies weshall be able to fashion dress without reference tofashion, yet in a becoming and pleasing manner. It is obvious that few women have opportunityor leisure for individual study and culture. Withmany there can be only a modification of prevail-ing styles, or perhaps even an unwilling has been accomplished when the slave is. ART PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO DRESS. 217 made conscious of his chains, though not a rivet isbroken. Much has been accomplished when wesee the stupidity and atrocity of fashionable hope is that the time will come when, throughthe culture of the few, the many may be led awayfrom perversion of form and imbecility of adorn-ment. A practical difficulty in the way of betterdress is the ignorance and tyranny of the dress-making craft. The dressmaker is fettered in thebonds of conventionalism, and even those whostyle themselves artistic are entirely ignorant ofart principles. The customer who ignores prevail-ing styles is looked upon with scorn and disap-proval. As it is always more difficult to move outof the beaten highway, many dressmakers abso-lutely refuse to work for those who will not acceptconventional forms. The choice of textures is governed by the figureof the wearer
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