Woman as Decoration
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Chapters (103)
- PLATE I
- WOMAN AS DECORATION
- EMILY BURBANK
- ILLUSTRATED
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I
- A FEW HINTS FOR THE NOVICE WHO WOULD PLAN HER COSTUMES
- PLATE II
- PLATE III
- CHAPTER II
- THE LAWS UNDERLYING ALL COSTUMING OF WOMAN
- PLATE IV
- PLATE V
- CHAPTER III
- HOW TO DRESS YOUR TYPE
- A Few Points Applying to All Costumes
- PLATE VI
- CHAPTER IV
- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHES
- PLATE VII
- CHAPTER V
- ESTABLISH HABITS OF CARRIAGE WHICH CREATE GOOD LINE
- PLATE VIII
- CHAPTER VI
- COLOUR IN WOMAN'S COSTUME
- PLATE IX
- CHAPTER VII
- FOOTWEAR
- PLATE X
- CHAPTER VIII
- JEWELRY AS DECORATION
- PLATE XI
- PLATE XII
- CHAPTER IX
- WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER BOUDOIR
- CHAPTER X
- WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER SUN-ROOM
- PLATE XIII
- CHAPTER XI
- I. WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER GARDEN
- PLATE XIV
- II. WOMAN DECORATIVE ON THE LAWN
- III. WOMAN DECORATIVE ON THE BEACH
- CHAPTER XII
- WOMAN AS DECORATION WHEN SKATING
- PLATE XV
- CHAPTER XIII
- WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER MOTOR CAR
- PLATE XVI
- CHAPTER XIV
- HOW TO GO ABOUT PLANNING A PERIOD COSTUME
- PLATE XVII
- PLATE XVIII
- CHAPTER XV
- I. THE STORY OF PERIOD COSTUMES
- A Résumé
- II. EGYPT AND ASSYRIA
- PLATE XIX
- III. EGYPT, BYZANTIUM, GREECE AND ROME
- PLATE XX
- CHAPTER XVI
- DEVELOPMENT OF GOTHIC COSTUME
- PLATE XXI
- PLATE XXII
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE RENAISSANCE
- Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- PLATE XXIII
- PLATE XXIV
- CHAPTER XVIII
- EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- PLATE XXV
- CHAPTER XIX
- WOMAN IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
- CHAPTER XX
- SEX IN COSTUMING
- PLATE XXVI
- CHAPTER XXI
- LINE AND COLOUR OF COSTUMES IN HUNGARY
- PLATE XXVII
- CHAPTER XXII
- STUDYING LINE AND COLOUR IN RUSSIA
- PLATE XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- MARK TWAIN'S LOVE OF COLOUR IN ALL COSTUMING
- PLATE XXIX
- CHAPTER XXIV
- THE ARTIST AND HIS COSTUME
- PLATE XXX
- CHAPTER XXV
- IDIOSYNCRASIES IN COSTUME
- CHAPTER XXVI
- NATIONALITY IN COSTUME
- PLATE XXXI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- MODELS
- PLATE XXXII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- WOMAN COSTUMED FOR HER WAR JOB
- PLATE XXXIII
- IN CONCLUSION
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