Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion: A Social EssayChatto & Windus, 1874 - 119 páginas |
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... dress , carrying terrible brands , in the form of scars where the flesh has been seared , and contracted joints where the bones have been broken , derangements of the system by which chronic aches and pains are continued to the end of ...
... dress , carrying terrible brands , in the form of scars where the flesh has been seared , and contracted joints where the bones have been broken , derangements of the system by which chronic aches and pains are continued to the end of ...
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... dress and jewels , silenced their lords with the sagacious , and , in those times , unanswerable reply , that " it was an act of religion to sacrifice to the Graces . " As little , also , let readers of another hue of thought now ...
... dress and jewels , silenced their lords with the sagacious , and , in those times , unanswerable reply , that " it was an act of religion to sacrifice to the Graces . " As little , also , let readers of another hue of thought now ...
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... dress , as of living , is a natural consequence of that accretion of wealth in a State , which is more concurrent with industrial progress in modern times than heretofore ; and we have a very limited faith in the sincerity of those ...
... dress , as of living , is a natural consequence of that accretion of wealth in a State , which is more concurrent with industrial progress in modern times than heretofore ; and we have a very limited faith in the sincerity of those ...
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... dress , called among modern civilized commu- nities the Fashion - la Mode — may be con- sidered from two chief points of view . From the first , and the most usually professed aspect of regarding it , it is con- sidered a product of the ...
... dress , called among modern civilized commu- nities the Fashion - la Mode — may be con- sidered from two chief points of view . From the first , and the most usually professed aspect of regarding it , it is con- sidered a product of the ...
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... dress both of men and women * * To make this apparent to the eye , we depict three examples of fashion : the first showing the cod - shaped stomacher of the Eliza- bethan period ; the second , the straight , long - waisted stay and ...
... dress both of men and women * * To make this apparent to the eye , we depict three examples of fashion : the first showing the cod - shaped stomacher of the Eliza- bethan period ; the second , the straight , long - waisted stay and ...
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Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion: A Social Essay Luke Limner (pseud. [i.e. John Leighton.]) Visualização integral - 1870 |
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