The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
Various · English
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THE RUDIMENTS OF DRESS. To dress the body is to put it into a right, proper, and becoming external condition. Comfort and decency are to be sought first in dress; next, fitness to the person and the condition of the wearer; last, beauty of form and color, and richness of material. But the last object is usually made the first, and thus all are perilled and often lost; for that which is not comfortable or decent or suitable cannot be completely beautiful. The two chief requisites of dres
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