. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. gradation. Fashion,clothes, seized upon the Renaissance, imposing her glit-tering artifices and thus obstructing the way to a restora-tion of true beauty and vigor. The Eighteenth Centurywitnessed the apotheosis of Fashion—^which the FrenchRevolution obscured but failed to transform into a Cal-vary. The train of the wedding dress of Frederick theGreats daughter was
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. gradation. Fashion,clothes, seized upon the Renaissance, imposing her glit-tering artifices and thus obstructing the way to a restora-tion of true beauty and vigor. The Eighteenth Centurywitnessed the apotheosis of Fashion—^which the FrenchRevolution obscured but failed to transform into a Cal-vary. The train of the wedding dress of Frederick theGreats daughter was borne by six maids of honor, who,on account of the great weight of the precious stoneswith which it was garnished, had two pages to assistthem. The total weight of the bridal attire is said tohave been nearly a hundred pounds. * Fashions hold upon the men was not less de Sevigne tells of the wedding toilet of thePrince de Conde: The whole court was witness of the * Grace Rhys, in Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century. Forty-one A playful Spring movement—flowers and ribbons, and lightness of move-ment -which seems almost to defy the force of gravitation. The smallTanagra figures suggest the same The Tyranny of Clothes ceremony, and Madame de Langeron, seizing the mo-ment when he had his paws crossed Hke a lion, slippedupon him a waistcoat with diamond buttons. A valetde chambre frizzed him, powdered him. His suit was in-estimably lovely; it was embroidered in very large dia-monds, following the lines of a black pattern on a straw-colored velvet ground. Etc., etc. Both sexes were corseted to the point of suffoca-tion. Dancing? Clothes pretended to dance—theirwearers couldnt; in the American slang of to-day, theywere dead from the hips up—yes, and ought to havebeen buried all over! We are now not much better off. Fashion still hasus in her grip. That grip is somewhat relaxed, however,and it is to be hoped that our restoration of dancing as itis e
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