Arena magazine - Volume 04 . The pull-back of 188C. Digitized by VjOOQIC 410 THE ARENA. Such have been the in-consistencies, incongruities,and absurdities of fashionas illustrated in the pasttliree decades, in view ofwhich one may well askwhether in fashions eyeswomen are such paragons ofugliness that these ever-varying styles (introduced,we are seriously informed,to conserve to her beauty,)are absolutely essential, andby what rule of art can weexplain the fact that theponderous hoopskirt wasthe essential requirement ofbeauty in the sixties and theenormous bus-tles demandedin the seven-ties. T
Arena magazine - Volume 04 . The pull-back of 188C. Digitized by VjOOQIC 410 THE ARENA. Such have been the in-consistencies, incongruities,and absurdities of fashionas illustrated in the pasttliree decades, in view ofwhich one may well askwhether in fashions eyeswomen are such paragons ofugliness that these ever-varying styles (introduced,we are seriously informed,to conserve to her beauty,)are absolutely essential, andby what rule of art can weexplain the fact that theponderous hoopskirt wasthe essential requirement ofbeauty in the sixties and theenormous bus-tles demandedin the seven-ties. The truth. is, iy all
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