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The Care Of Brushes And Combs

I. Dress, Ancient and Modern.

N classic Greece, and in fact among all polite ancient nations, the form of the wearer gave shape to the dress. In our days clothes too often make the figure of the person who wears them. Among the ancients, a simple piece of cloth was allowed to drape itself negligently over the form, now and then disclosing its proportions. Now it is the art of the tailor and dress-maker which makes the fashionable .

Now it is the art of the tailor and dress-maker which makes the fashionable man or woman. The one padded and corseted, puffed out here, drawn in there; the other a mystery of cotton, whalebone, steel and bustle, beneath which the wearer " moves and has her being," sighs, languishes and breathes. In the country, indeed, fashion does not go so far. Simple taste may there find exercise. Happy is the city man or woman whose taste and wealth allow a few months of natural life in the country.