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Title: Beauty of form and grace of vesture
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Steele, Frances Mary Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele
Subjects: Beauty, Personal Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uillity which religion is power-less to bestow. Courage and clothes have somuch to do with one another. A well-ordereddress helps to put one at leisure from ones self.The ease of it, the sense of fitness it induces, pre-pare the mind for the right attitude of courtesyto others. Raskin says: The splendour and phantasy ofdress w^ere, in the early days, studied for love oftheir true beauty and honourableness, and becameone of the main helps to dignity of character andcourtesy of bearing. Look back to what we havebeen told of the dress of the earh Venetians, —that it was so invented that in clothing them-selves with it, they might clothe themselves withmodesty and honour; consider what noblenessof expression there is in the dress of any of theportrait figures of the great times. — nay. whatperfect beauty, and more than beauty, there is inthe folding of the robe round the imagined form ofthe saint or angel; and then consider whether thegrace of vesture be indeed a thing to be despised.
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Fig. 3. — Sylvia. BEAUTY OF FORM. 1/ We cannot despise it if we would ; and in all ourhighest poetry and happiest thought we cling tothe magnificence which in daily life we disregard. The study of the true beauty of adornment maybe a perennial source of simple pleasure, a con-stant ministration to delight and gratitude. Thegraces of appearance, if consecrated to reverentuse, are at once lifted above shallow egotism. The follies of fashion have so long been held upto ridicule that the whole subject of womansdress is overlaid with a measure of contempt.When it shall come to be regarded as the out-come of character, as a medium for the indicationof artistic taste, and only a necessary, convenient,and charming accessary to highest usefulness,then the time devoted to its study will not beconsidered wasted, nor will thoughtful care for itbe the synonym for frivolity. The love of dress, of colour, of choice fabrics, ofornament, is evidence of the desire of the humanmind to realize an ideal

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