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Title: The art & ethics of dress
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Farnsworth, Eva Olney
Subjects: Clothing and dress
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal., P. Elder & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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supposes fitness, proportion and grace. Dress, like architecture, is based uponpractical requirements and can only betrue and logical and therefore artisticwhen it meets these requirements. Theexternal arrangements and design shouldarise out of the figure and indicate itsrequirements. Nothing can be artisticthat impedes the free and graceful actionof the limbs. The perfect masculine outline showsnarrow hips and broad shoulders. Thisis as apparent in childhood as in maturity.Fashion-makers of mens garments wouldnot risk business success by offering menclothing that would handicap them in anyvocation, and this characteristic outline ispreserved. Only at home does the gentle-man indulge in color, velvet, silk or cash-mere. When he appears in public he mayaim at distinction only by the superior cutof his garments. What the male attire (9) FITNESS thus loses in striking effect it gains in tone.Mans sagacity in matters of dress has en-abled him to render inestimable service tohumanity. (IO)
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Characteristic outline preserved in clothing himself.The use of the intellect has a powerful effect uponthe moulding and chiseling of the features. BEAUTY The beauty which is to endure mustbe sane and wholesome because thehuman race is sound at heart andcan be counted upon in the long run to reject anything which is essentially unhealthy or decadent.—Birge Harrison. Beauty is the divine ideal. All schools of artists are but spelling itout and every great artist is a flashof God on this dull world of ours.—Lyman Abbot. BEAUTY BEAUTY of form is produced bylines growing out one from an-other in gradual undulations.There must be no excrescence;nothing could be removed and leave the form equally good or better. All junc-tions of curved lines with curved or of curved lines with straight ones should be tangential to each other and the straight,the inclined and the curved should be properly balanced. We might say, that that dress must always be best and most beautiful which follows the lines of th

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