Hand-book of calisthenics and gymnastics : a complete drill-book for schools, families, and gymnasiums : with music to accompany the exercises . Fiti. 10. Fig. 11, Convenience, which is to be distinguished from mere bodilycomfort, is the next essential of becoming dress. A manshould not wear a Spanish cloak while using a flail or a pairof Indian clubs; a woman should not make butter in largehanging-sleeves, nor walk on muddy roads in long, trailingskirts. ~No beauty of form or splendor of material in cos- 134 CALISTHENICS. tume can compensate for manifest inconvenience to thewearer. No dress i
Hand-book of calisthenics and gymnastics : a complete drill-book for schools, families, and gymnasiums : with music to accompany the exercises . Fiti. 10. Fig. 11, Convenience, which is to be distinguished from mere bodilycomfort, is the next essential of becoming dress. A manshould not wear a Spanish cloak while using a flail or a pairof Indian clubs; a woman should not make butter in largehanging-sleeves, nor walk on muddy roads in long, trailingskirts. ~No beauty of form or splendor of material in cos- 134 CALISTHENICS. tume can compensate for manifest inconvenience to thewearer. No dress is sanctioned by good taste which doesnot permit, and seem to permit, the easy performance of anymovement proper to the wearers age and condition in life;for it defies the very first law of the mixed arts—fitness. Form is the most important element of the absolute beautyof dress, as it is of all arts that appeal to the eye. The linesof costume should, in every part, conform to those of nature,or be in harmony with them. In color, another importantelement of beauty, no fine effects of costume are to be at-tained without broad masses of pu
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