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Show Art in Dress American ladies have long been noted for their taste in dress, and though individually they may violate the rules of harmony, as a nation they carry off the palm for elegant dressing, understanding its fitness to age, complexion and climate. Rushin? Rusdin? the great art educator, holds that there may be as much artistic taste shown in dress as in the coloring of a picture, and lays down the following rules which are full of suggestion: " Right dress is strong, simple, radiantly clean, carefully put on, carefully kept. Beautiful dress is beautiful in color, in harmony of parts, and in mode of putting on and wearing." Frederika Bremer paid American women this tribute, while on her visit to this country: "I have but one regret amid all," she writes to her friends in Europe in regard to the enthusiastic greeting with which she was received here, "and that is this: I feel sorry when all these beautiful and handsomely dressed ladies call upon me, that they should find the object of their admiration to be such an ugly, old-fashioned, ill-dressed old body as I am." |