Frocks, Quills, & Ink Spills: "Centuries of Style: A Retrospective of Dress”

“The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable."

― Henry David Thoreau

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

"Centuries of Style: A Retrospective of Dress”

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