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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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me families notbefore thirty. IMatrons have a wide range of colour-choice.September and October hues are for them, strongand glowing, rich and deep; the reds and russets,the yellows down through brown, the heliotropes,garnets, and mulberries, —• these are eminentlyavailable for out-door wear. Gorgeous and com-plicated tones may make interiors glowing. Nowis the time for magnificent brocades, never appro-priate before, for jewels and sweeping trains andfine laces. If the hair begins to be frosty, one should keepin fine condition, be bracing and brilliant, in har-mony with the autumn weather. One should belike a gorgeous leaf, ripening slowly and fadingslowly, not shrivelled and cast down in the firstbleak day. Autumn may be a long, bright, exhil-arating season, with a golden Indian summer.When it is time to loosen hold on life, one maylinger in some quiet corner, wearing the luminoustints of forest-leaves in sheltered nooks which showa mosaic of withdrawn hues covered with a tender
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Fig. 71. BEAUTY OF FORM. I97 bloom. There is a poetry, a mystery, about thesethat speak of experiences veiled by the past.Such colours are found on the wrong side of tapes-tries and brocades. A placid old lady in raiment of gray, or fawn, orwhite, may be as welcome as a tender touch or anessential service. The return to second childhoodshould bring with it a serene benediction akin tothat felt in the presence of her Baby Highness, thequeen of the nursery. Grandmas room may be like an oasis in thedesert, a most restful place, because of the tranquilexpression of her face and figure. She does notneed to do or to say much, if only her presence isone of repose and good cheer. It is not so muchwJiat one says as the way one says it which makesup personal charm. There was a plain, wrinkled, but wonderfullyserene old woman in a city street-car. Theyoung man with her seemed to be full of satisfac-tion and pride on her account. Her air of com-plete confidence in his manly protection wasmatched

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