Beauty of form and grace of vesture . our room, trace it, copy it,draw it from memory until you own it as you own Mar\ had a little lamb. The proportions ofclassic models should be studied with the samezeal, till their contours can be distinctly remem-bered. To learn to see grace, refinement, beautyin them, and to learn to disapprove forms unlikethem, is the first lesson in good taste. Appreciating these, one has to make her ownbody as nearly as possible like classic models, byexercise, by diet, by every healthful process, or,. Fig. 17. — Apollo Belvidere. BEAUTY OF FORM. 61 as a last resort,
Beauty of form and grace of vesture . our room, trace it, copy it,draw it from memory until you own it as you own Mar\ had a little lamb. The proportions ofclassic models should be studied with the samezeal, till their contours can be distinctly remem-bered. To learn to see grace, refinement, beautyin them, and to learn to disapprove forms unlikethem, is the first lesson in good taste. Appreciating these, one has to make her ownbody as nearly as possible like classic models, byexercise, by diet, by every healthful process, or,. Fig. 17. — Apollo Belvidere. BEAUTY OF FORM. 61 as a last resort, to simulate corresponding pro-portions by every harmless device of art inclothing. Most persons fancy they admire standard sculp-ture ; but it must be in imagination only, else whyshould they allow themselves to exemplify falsestandards of form, and positively distort their ownprecious bodies ? Searching for the best examples of the humanfigure, we may discover that manly beauty andwomanly beauty differ essentially. It is agreedthat the type of manly proportion includes a com-paratively large head, wide and rather squareshoulders, with a torso tapering to a contractedpelvis (Fig. i8). On the other hand, for a woman the headshould be small, the shoulders slightly drooping,the torso full, and widest at the hips (see Fig. 19) ;while the front line from the breast-bone over theabdomen should show first a gentle, and then afuller outward curve. The charm of womanly contours is in this sweepor long curve from armpit to ankl
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