Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 680 BE VOLUTION AND REACTION. [1784 appeared dressed a Vantique in muslin wiiicli clung to herform like the folds of the drapery on a statue; her hair in aplait at the back, and foiling in small ringlets round her face,and greasy with liaile antique; a large veil thrown over thehead. In evening dress English women completed the Grecianor Roman coiffure by a panache, or bristle-plumo, or a bunchof feathers st
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 680 BE VOLUTION AND REACTION. [1784 appeared dressed a Vantique in muslin wiiicli clung to herform like the folds of the drapery on a statue; her hair in aplait at the back, and foiling in small ringlets round her face,and greasy with liaile antique; a large veil thrown over thehead. In evening dress English women completed the Grecianor Roman coiffure by a panache, or bristle-plumo, or a bunchof feathers standino- erect in front. Tlic buftbnt kerchief The Revo-lution FULL DRESS FOB FKBRUARY, IT-JH.(From a contemporarij fashion plate.) went out, and for -a short time it became the fashion to wrapthe neck up to the chin in folds of nmslin in imitation of amans cravat. This was succeeded in 1795 by the low-neckedbodice exposing the shoulders. As the waist was placedabnormally high, the bodice measured only two^or threeinches in depth. With this total change in externals there came also thatrevolution in moral opinions of which Burke speaks. Eventhe changes in a fashionable womans dress serve in someways to show it. The movement in dress was in part amovement from artificiality to simplicity, and in morals it ^^Wii^^iii^^M^iftip^iii^^^
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