Beauty of form and grace of vesture . t helps to clothe, andmay be very beautiful. (See Figures 29, 32, jj,and 79.) The short puff worn in place of a sleeve did notdisturb the beauty of the line of the shoulder as itmelts into the arm. The long glove completed itsclothing. The long shawl, worn across the back,passing over the elbows and falling to the knees infront, is a garment which adds great elegance to anerect carriage. As this dress was worn by our grandmothers inthe early days of our republic, we should find in itprofitable hints for our own guidance. It has beenextolled, of late, by ar
Beauty of form and grace of vesture . t helps to clothe, andmay be very beautiful. (See Figures 29, 32, jj,and 79.) The short puff worn in place of a sleeve did notdisturb the beauty of the line of the shoulder as itmelts into the arm. The long glove completed itsclothing. The long shawl, worn across the back,passing over the elbows and falling to the knees infront, is a garment which adds great elegance to anerect carriage. As this dress was worn by our grandmothers inthe early days of our republic, we should find in itprofitable hints for our own guidance. It has beenextolled, of late, by artists as the most gracefuldress worn since the classical period. Its chiefcharacteristic was its simplicity. It was majesticonly when a court train was added, as in Rheasdress as Josephine in coronation robes. Sir JoshuaReynolds and a few later painters have left somegraceful examples of beauties arrayed in thismanner. 14 2IO BEAUTY OF FORM. A large woman, not too stout, might wear sucha ffown. It would be becoming also to a delicate. 79- type of woman, whose curves are of the will not obscure the glory of the woman of loftycarriage and faultless proportions. While the Empire Dress may offer good sugges- BEAUTY OF FORM. 211 tions, it cannot be copied without careful , no example, ancient or modern, can be socopied with hope of success. The object of artisticdress is to heighten the beauty of the wearer. Itcan only be attained by thoughtful painstaking; itcan never be realized by the woman who expectssome one else to do her thinking. But such pains-taking is no more wearisome than the effort toprovide conventional clothes, while there is thepossibility of far more satisfactory results. The dress that was worn by the early Englishqueens, and which continued to be the typicaldress of the upper classes in Europe till thesixteenth century, was very simple in of it were very rude, and mainlyfound among the illuminations of tomb o
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