The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . BEAUTY OF FORM. 193 equal parts, and each feature of the right sidebalances and plays into each feature of the say, at the first moment, here is an element ofbeauty with which fashionable dress does not in-terfere. A corset, tight sleeves, tight boots, leavethe same rigid impression on the right and leftsides. But the symmetry of nature is never formalnor accurate. She takes the greatest care to securesome difference between the corresponding thingsor parts of things. The boug
The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . BEAUTY OF FORM. 193 equal parts, and each feature of the right sidebalances and plays into each feature of the say, at the first moment, here is an element ofbeauty with which fashionable dress does not in-terfere. A corset, tight sleeves, tight boots, leavethe same rigid impression on the right and leftsides. But the symmetry of nature is never formalnor accurate. She takes the greatest care to securesome difference between the corresponding thingsor parts of things. The bough on the left side ofthe tree is not precisely like the bough on theright. If it were there would be an effect ofstiffness and formality. The right and left eyesworking in exactly the same method would havethe animation of eyes which turn to the right andleft by machinery. The symmetry of the corset-figure is mathematical. The rigidity of the waistis the fixed symmetry of an inanimate is no delicate balancing of the sides by theinterplay of muscles. The muscles indeed seempetrified. The precis
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