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Excerpt from The Studio It is perhaps only natural that so versatile a master of theatrical design should have tried his hand on modern dress. Yet I cannot think that he has achieved a real success. However much we may lament the fact, we live in a democratic, utili tarian age. Trousers are trousers, skirts are skirts for all the world. It is true that some words of Chaucer's poor parson concerning dis ordinate scantitee of clothinge are not altogether inapplicable even to the present time but the days when men and women made themselves picturesquely ridiculous by wearing almost nothing, or trailing the superfluitee Of their gowns in the dong and in the myre, merely in order to furnish an advertisement of their social status, are gone to return no more. There are no more Sumptuary Laws, and, to speak broadly, the dressmakers' matcher may come out tomorrow in just such another costume for shape and style as her employer has been creating to-day for the greatest lady in the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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