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other races and other times.
The more important result of the study of past fashions, in engravings
illustrations, from the simplicity of Athens, through the artificiality
modistic inventions of the first McKinley, there is discoverable a
we encounter it in one age and another. I mean a style of dress.html">dress that is
accords with the grace of the perfect human figure, and that gives as
While all the other illustrations of the human ingenuity in making the
--except the tailor fashion.html">fashion-plates of the week that is now,--these few
recognized as following the eternal law of beauty and utility. And we
lack of any taste.html">taste, that there is a standard, artistic and imperishable.
The student of manners might find an interesting field in noting how, in
literary style have been accompanied by more or less significant
Euphuist of England a corresponding effeminacy in dress; in the frank
apparel, passing into the Directoire style in the Citizen and the
England the grim severity of their theology and morals. These examples
by the outward apparel, as the Quakers indicate an inward peace by an
and yellow paint; just as we express by red stripes our desire to kill
is not possible to say whether these external displays are relics of
uncertain taste in literature. A book or a certain fashion in letters
waxes old. It seems incredible, as we look back over the literary
moods of expression, affectations, and prettinesses, each in turn, have
read.html">read and liked to read! Think of the French, who had once had a Villon,
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