of Clothing The subject of dress needs to be analysed for in many cases it means acquiring as much as possible vf the latest style with no thought given to beauty. Beauty and style are two parallel lines that seldom converge. Style dominates beauty with the average woman whether she can boast lines like Venus de Milo or whether she would do for an advertisement of obesity cure—before taking. Clothes were; originally designed for two purposes—shelter and decoration. Now clothes are frequently designed to show the eccentricities or morbid tendencies of some designer, or to see how much we will bear of the grotesque.
Tt is true that many of the best French artists derive a large por tion of their income from drawing: the figures" for fashion pooks. In the early part of his career Horace Vernet, once president of the French Academy, em! loyed his) talents in this way. We can express only indignation with s Men, for. the merit of their execution' misleads victims to their fascination. A frock designed for them flat-chested stringy models {and most of them are ill-proportioned) will not look well on a woman who is gracefully rounded, and they become absurd on the woman who is stout.
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