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Title: What Dress Makes of Us (Illustated)
Author : Dorothy Quigley
Release Date : January 01, 2018
Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 868 KB

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Practical clothing advice for women, first published in 1897."Did you ever observe, dear comrade, what an element of caricature lurks in clothes? A short, round coat on a stout man seems to exaggerate his proportions to such a ridiculous degree that the profile of his manly form suggests "the robust bulge of an old jug." A bonnet decorated with loops of ribbon and sprays of grass, or flowers that fall aslant, may give a laughably tipsy air to the long face of a saintly matron of pious and conservative habits. A peaked hat and tight-fitting, long-skirted coat may so magnify the meagre physical endowments of a tall, slender girl that she attains the lank and longish look of a bottle of hock..."