MODERN DRESS VULGARIZING.
Could one of the old Greek sculptors be transported into a modern drawing room he would surely wonder less that we have no better art than that we should have any at all. For the truth stares every thoughtful person in the face. We are daily doing more and more to travesty the human form and set at naugfct those very principles of harmony inculcated by various aesthetic teachers with so much vehemence. The modern dress of both sexes by no "means accords with the simplest laws of beauty, hygiene and economic science. And, take it for all and all, perhaps the dress of a lady was seldom more inartistic, unhealthy and extravagant than at present, and surely never more vulgarizing.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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124MODERN DRESS VULGARIZING. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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