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    What Dress Makes of Us
    What Dress Makes of Us
    What Dress Makes of Us
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    What Dress Makes of Us

    By Dorothy Quigley

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013

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      This little book - roughly 150 pages long, including a bunch of half page illustrations - was the perfect ebook download from the Project Gutenberg website. Originally published in 1897, this fashion critique/commentary is entertaining reading.... if for nothing more than the audacity with which Quigley attacks the fashion faux pas of her fellow lady, and man. Some of the advice is still of common sense usage for our modern times - horizontal stripes only enhance the girth of the human body, that dark colours are more slimming for a figure and how to breakup the visual effect to minimize drawing attention to as trouble spot. It was shockingly interesting to read the viewpoint that one's physical appearance gives way to identification of personality types - that a woman with a protruding nose "should aim to modify the unhappy angularity of her profile as well as to repress her gossipy tendencies." and other comments of this type which are peppered throughout the book.The book starts out with Quigley thanking the editors of the New York Sun and New York Journal for kindly allowing her to include in this book articles which she had contributed to their respective papers. The appointed (or possibly self-appointed) fashion adviser to the masses will have you chuckling at the fashions of the period and how freely she communicates "exactly what she thinks". Overall, a fun, quick and entertaining look at late 19th century fashion advice. If you choose to read this one, I recommend downloading either the epub or kindle versions with the images, which are quite good line drawings and are good visual aides for Quigley's commentary.

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    What Dress Makes of Us - Dorothy Quigley

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of What Dress Makes of Us, by Dorothy Quigley

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    Title: What Dress Makes of Us

    Author: Dorothy Quigley

    Release Date: February 13, 2004 [EBook #11078]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT DRESS MAKES OF US ***

    Produced by Stan Goodman, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed

    Proofreading Team.

    WHAT DRESS MAKES OF US

    By

    DOROTHY QUIGLEY

    Illustrations by

    ANNIE BLAKESLEE

    1897

    I am indebted to the editors of the New York Sun and New York Journal for kindly allowing me to include in this book articles which I contributed to their respective papers.

    PREFACE.

    Did you ever observe, dear comrade, what an element of caricature lurks in clothes? A short, round coat on a stout man seems to exaggerate his proportions to such a ridiculous degree that the profile of his manly form suggests the robust bulge of an old jug.

    A bonnet decorated with loops of ribbon and sprays of grass, or flowers that fall aslant, may give a laughably tipsy air to the long face of a saintly matron of pious and conservative habits.

    A peaked hat and tight-fitting, long-skirted coat may so magnify the meagre physical endowments of a tall, slender girl that she attains the lank and longish look of a bottle of hock.

    Oh! the mocking diablery in strings, wisps of untidy hair, queer trimmings, and limp hats. Alas! that they should have such impish power to detract from the dignity of woman and render man absurd.

    Because of his comical attire, an eminent Oxford divine, whose life and works commanded reverence, was once mistaken for an ancient New England spinster in emancipated garments. His smoothly shaven face, framed in crinkly, gray locks, was surmounted by a soft, little, round hat, from the up-turned brim of which dangled a broken string. His long frock-coat reached to just above his loosely fitting gaiters.

    The fluttering string, whose only reason for being at all was to keep the queer head-gear from sailing away on the wind, gave a touch of the ludicrous to the boyish hat which, in its turn, lent more drollery than dignity to the sanctified face of the old theologian. Who has not seen just such, or a similar sight, and laughed? Who has not, with the generosity common to us all, concluded these were the mistakes and self-delusions of neighbors, relatives, and friends, in which we had no share?

    I understand how it is with you. I am one of you. Before I studied our common errors I smiled at my neighbor's lack of taste, reconstructed my friends, and cast contemptuous criticism upon my enemies. One day I took a look at myself, and realized that I, too, am laughable on unsuspected occasions.

    The humbling knowledge of seeing myself objectively, gave me courage to speak to the heart of you certain home truths which concern us all, in homely language which we can all understand.

    That you may discern the comicality and waggery in ill-chosen clothes, I have endeavored to hint to you in these talks some of the ways gew-gaws and garments make game of us.

    May you discover that your dress is not making you a laughable object; but if, by any chance, you should note that your clothes are caricaturing you, take heart. Enjoy the joke with the mirth that heals and heartens, and speedily correct your mistakes.

    The lines of your form, the modelling of your face, are they not worthy of your discerning thought? Truly! Whatever detracts from them detracts from sculpture, painting, and poetry, and the world is the loser.

    A word to the thinking is sufficient.

    D.Q.

    CONTENTS.

    PREFACE

    CHAPTER I.

    HOW WOMEN OF CERTAIN TYPES SHOULD DRESS THEIR HAIR

    Style for Wedge-Shaped Faces

    Style for Heavy Jaws

    Style for Eyes Set Too High

    Style for Eyes Set Too Low

    Style for Long Faces with Long Noses

    For Faces with Protruding Noses

    CHAPTER II.

    HINTS FOR THE SELECTION OF BECOMING AND APPROPRIATE STYLES IN HEAD-GEAR

    The Magic of the Bonnet

    Style for Women with Broad Face and Heavy Chin

    Style for Women with Tapering Chin

    Hat for the Chubby Woman

    For Women Who Have Sharp and Prominent Profiles

    For the Woman with an Angular Face

    Women Who should Not Wear Horns

    CHAPTER III.

    LINES THAT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AND CONSIDERED IN MAKING COSTUMES

    Style for Tall Slender Women

    The Coat the Short Stout Women should Wear

    The Cloak or Cape for a Tall Women

    CHAPTER IV.

    HOW PLUMP AND THIN BACKS SHOULD BE CLOTHED

    CHAPTER V.

    CORSAGES APPROPRIATE FOR WOMEN WITH UNBEAUTIFULLY MODELLED THROATS AND SHOULDERS

    CHAPTER VI.

    HINTS ON DRESS FOR ELDERLY WOMEN

    CHAPTER VII.

    HOW

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