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The mirror of the graces; or, the English lady's costume: combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity and economy, with fashion in dress; and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, forms, and complexions; to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life: with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners; the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body: offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness. The whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety
(1811)
Contents, pp. [ix]-xxiii [xiii] ff.
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CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. General thoughts on dress and personal decoration. Fashion.-Essentials of good dressing.-Lady's dressing-room.-Sympathy between mind and apparel.-Slatterns.-Literary ladies.-Rich slo- vens.-Economy.--Costliness.- Peculiar dress- ing to each period of life.-Hebe-form.-Morn- ing--evening costume. - Juno-form. - Orna- ments. - Colours.- Stuffs.- Various fashioned dresses.- Indelicacy. -Modesty. - Chemise.- Corsets.-Petticoats, &c.-The stages of a wo- man's beauty. Page 59. CHAPTER VI On thepeculiarities of dress, with reference to the station of the wearer.-A tradesmen's wife. -A woman of quality.-Modern education.- Its consequences.-Our ancestors.-Bishop Lati- mer.-Good sense.-Taste.-The bosom.-The back.-Decency.-Long stays, &c. &c.-Cestus of Venus.-Girdle of Florizel.-Zone of Serena. -Natural form,. Page 85. CHAPTER VII. On the detail of dress.-Apparel in general.-Dif- ference in shapes.-An awkward woman.-An elegant woman.-Graceful dressing. - Robes, x1XL
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