. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . andfrank. Their eyes are nearly always dark or black, as is also theirhair, though light hair and green or blue eyes are not uncommon. The slim figures of the Limanian ladies, their small well-shapedfeet, the elegance and ease of their deportment, have always beenacknowledged and extolled. Whether they are beautiful and havenothing to envy the women of other countries, the portraits con-tained in this book will tell better than any verbal portraits are not the fantasti
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . andfrank. Their eyes are nearly always dark or black, as is also theirhair, though light hair and green or blue eyes are not uncommon. The slim figures of the Limanian ladies, their small well-shapedfeet, the elegance and ease of their deportment, have always beenacknowledged and extolled. Whether they are beautiful and havenothing to envy the women of other countries, the portraits con-tained in this book will tell better than any verbal portraits are not the fantastic productions of art, but photo-graphs taken from life. NATIONAL COSTUME. The national garments called the my a y mania (1), formerly somuch used for visiting and walking, are now things of the past;and, either through our w^ant of taste, or because we could neverdiscover the beauties of the saya, we do not regret its complete (I) The sfl!//rt was an upper skirt, gathered in;very narrow plaits and worn overthe dress. The vianto was a kind of hood, fastened round the waist and drawn up tocover the ■If 5 ■-,(;• r; DOCGUir 111. Jmc, Lemcraer 6 C First SecTGiary of tkeleoation of Peru m France ) > 1 > > > J . > J J LIMA. !)!> disappearance. If the pretty foot of a lady wearing it could notescape the notice of tlie least curious observer, the truth never-theless compels us to say that this garment, owing to its scant pro-portions, masked the outlines of the figure in sucli a \m\\ as todeprive the wearer of all grace and elegance. Our ladies felt all theinconvenience of this narrow-plaited sai/a., when in stepping over agutter they could not help wetting the toe of their white satin shoe,and they would have been greatly embarrassed, if compelled to runfrom some threatening danger. The saj/a had therefore to undergo
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