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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.
Page xxi [xi]
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,
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