Note 28 — FASHION IN DRESS
Reading edition
"Æsthetical" was noticed as early as 1847 in a dig at New Curiosities of Literature, and in 1853 we read of an "æsthetic tea," at which "the atmosphere was one of architecture, painting, stained glass, brasses, heraldry, wood carving, madrigals, chants, motets, mysticism and theology."