Woman as Decoration
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Chapter 1 A FEW HINTS FOR THE NOVICE WHO WOULD PLAN HER COSTUMES
Chapter 2 THE LAWS UNDERLYING ALL COSTUMING OF WOMAN
Chapter 3 HOW TO DRESS YOUR TYPE
Chapter 4 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHES
Chapter 5 ESTABLISH HABITS OF CARRIAGE WHICH CREATE GOOD LINE
Chapter 6 COLOUR IN WOMAN'S COSTUME
Chapter 7 FOOTWEAR
Chapter 8 JEWELRY AS DECORATION
Chapter 9 WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER BOUDOIR
Chapter 10 WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER SUN-ROOM
Chapter 11 I. WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER GARDEN
Chapter 12 WOMAN AS DECORATION WHEN SKATING
Chapter 13 WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER MOTOR CAR
Chapter 14 HOW TO GO ABOUT PLANNING A PERIOD COSTUME
Chapter 15 I. THE STORY OF PERIOD COSTUMES
Chapter 16 DEVELOPMENT OF GOTHIC COSTUME
Chapter 17 THE RENAISSANCE
Chapter 18 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 19 WOMAN IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
Chapter 20 SEX IN COSTUMING
Chapter 21 LINE AND COLOUR OF COSTUMES IN HUNGARY
Chapter 22 STUDYING LINE AND COLOUR IN RUSSIA
Chapter 23 MARK TWAIN'S LOVE OF COLOUR IN ALL COSTUMING
Chapter 24 THE ARTIST AND HIS COSTUME
Chapter 25 IDIOSYNCRASIES IN COSTUME
Chapter 26 NATIONALITY IN COSTUME
Chapter 27 MODELS
Chapter 28 WOMAN COSTUMED FOR HER WAR JOB
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Chapter 15 I. THE STORY OF PERIOD COSTUMES

A Résumé

"UR present modes of dress (aside from the variations imposed by fashion) are the resultant of all the fashions of the last 2000 years."

W. G. Sumner in Folkways.

The earliest Egyptian frescoes, invaluable pre-historic data, show us woman as she was costumed, housed and occupied when the painting was done. On those age-old walls s

             
            

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