Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical . i^ EARLY VICTORIAN V IN- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, I04 COSTUME CHAP. from every age, adopting with mild enthusiasmand moderated transport the most graceful andthe most graceless, and impartially bestowingattention upon the slashed and puffed sleeves ofthe Tudors, the lace collar and wide ruff of theStuarts, the Watteau dress, re-christened * DollyVarden, the short waists of the Empire, the fullcoats and large revers of the Directoire, and thelong plumes and brilliant buckles of the seventeenthcentury. An injustice to the word aesthetic was
Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical . i^ EARLY VICTORIAN V IN- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, I04 COSTUME CHAP. from every age, adopting with mild enthusiasmand moderated transport the most graceful andthe most graceless, and impartially bestowingattention upon the slashed and puffed sleeves ofthe Tudors, the lace collar and wide ruff of theStuarts, the Watteau dress, re-christened * DollyVarden, the short waists of the Empire, the fullcoats and large revers of the Directoire, and thelong plumes and brilliant buckles of the seventeenthcentury. An injustice to the word aesthetic wascommitted by the followers of a fashion whichcried aloud for sad colours, sadder shapes, andthe saddest untidiness ; and amongst the ridiculousmistakes may be written down a polonaise dresslooping up in unexpected places, flounced andfurbelowed without bounds of reason, while extend-ing itself from the waist over an immense is satisfaction in remembering the reactionwhich took place after this in favour of the eelskindress, setting as tightly as was convenie
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