Woman as Decoration
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Woman as Decoration, by Emily Burbank
E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, Cori Samuel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/)
PLATE I
WOMAN AS DECORATION
BY
EMILY BURBANK
ILLUSTRATED
Copyright, 1917 By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc. DEDICATED to V. B. G.
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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