Woman as Decoration

About this eBook

Author

Burbank, Emily

Credits

E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, Cori Samuel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

TT: Technology: Handicrafts, Arts and crafts

Subject

Women's clothing

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18901

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18901

Release Date

July 23, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PLATE I — WOMAN AS DECORATION — BY
2. 2.EMILY BURBANK — ILLUSTRATED — Copyright, 1917 By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc. DEDICATED to V. B. G.
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.CHAPTER I — A FEW HINTS FOR THE NOVICE WHO WOULD PLAN HER COSTUMES — PLATE II — PLATE III
7. 7.CHAPTER II — THE LAWS UNDERLYING ALL COSTUMING OF WOMAN — PLATE IV — PLATE V
8. 8.CHAPTER III — HOW TO DRESS YOUR TYPE — A Few Points Applying to All Costumes — PLATE VI
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHES — PLATE VII
10. 10.CHAPTER V — ESTABLISH HABITS OF CARRIAGE WHICH CREATE GOOD LINE — PLATE VIII
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — COLOUR IN WOMAN'S COSTUME — PLATE IX
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — FOOTWEAR — PLATE X
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — JEWELRY AS DECORATION — PLATE XI — PLATE XII
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER BOUDOIR
15. 15.CHAPTER X — WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER SUN-ROOM — PLATE XIII
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — I. WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER GARDEN — PLATE XIV — II. WOMAN DECORATIVE ON THE LAWN — III. WOMAN DECORATIVE ON THE BEACH
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — WOMAN AS DECORATION WHEN SKATING — PLATE XV
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER MOTOR CAR — PLATE XVI
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — HOW TO GO ABOUT PLANNING A PERIOD COSTUME — PLATE XVII — PLATE XVIII
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — I. THE STORY OF PERIOD COSTUMES — A Résumé — II. EGYPT AND ASSYRIA — PLATE XIX — III. EGYPT, BYZANTIUM, GREECE AND ROME — PLATE XX
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — DEVELOPMENT OF GOTHIC COSTUME — PLATE XXI — PLATE XXII
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — THE RENAISSANCE — Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries — PLATE XXIII — PLATE XXIV
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — PLATE XXV
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — WOMAN IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — SEX IN COSTUMING — PLATE XXVI
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — LINE AND COLOUR OF COSTUMES IN HUNGARY — PLATE XXVII
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — STUDYING LINE AND COLOUR IN RUSSIA — PLATE XXVIII
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII — MARK TWAIN'S LOVE OF COLOUR IN ALL COSTUMING — PLATE XXIX
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV — THE ARTIST AND HIS COSTUME — PLATE XXX
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV — IDIOSYNCRASIES IN COSTUME
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI — NATIONALITY IN COSTUME — PLATE XXXI
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII — MODELS — PLATE XXXII
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII — WOMAN COSTUMED FOR HER WAR JOB — PLATE XXXIII
34. 34.IN CONCLUSION

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