ILLUSTRATIONS

IMme. Geraldine Farrar in Greek Costume as Thaïs Sketched by Thelma Cudlipp(Frontispiece)

IIWoman in Ancient Egyptian Sculpture-Relief9

IIIWoman in Greek Art19

IVWoman on Greek Vase29

VWoman in Gothic Art Portrait Showing Pointed Head-dress39

VIWoman in Art of the Renaissance Sculpture-relief in Terra-cotta: The Virgin49

VIIWoman in Art of the Renaissance Sculpture-relief in Terra-cotta: Holy Women59

VIIITudor England Portrait of Queen Elizabeth69

IXSpain--Velasquez Portrait79

XEighteenth Century England Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough89

XIBourbon France Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Madame Vigée Le Brun99

XIICostume of Empire Period An English Portrait109

XIIIEighteenth Century Costume Portrait by Gilbert Stuart119

XIVVictorian Period (About 1840) Mme. Adeline Genée in Costume129

XVLate Nineteenth Century (About 1890) A Portrait by John S. Sargent139

XVIA Modern Portrait By John W. Alexander149

XVIIA Portrait of Mrs. Philip M. Lydig By I. Zuloaga159

XVIIIMrs. Langtry (Lady de Bathe) in Evening Wrap169

XIXMrs. Condé Nast in Street Dress Photograph by Baron de Meyer179

XXMrs. Condé Nast in Evening Dress189

XXIMrs. Condé Nast in Garden Costume199

XXIIMrs. Condé Nast in Fortuny Tea Gown209

XXIIIMrs. Vernon Castle in Ball Costume219

XXIVMrs. Vernon Castle in Afternoon Costume--Winter229

XXVMrs. Vernon Castle in Afternoon Costume--Summer239

XXVIMrs. Vernon Castle Costumed À La Guerre for a Walk249

XXVIIMrs. Vernon Castle--A Fantasy259

XXVIIIModern Skating Costume--1917 Winner of Amateur Championship of Fancy Skating269

XXIX AModern Silhouette--1917 Tailor-Made. Drawn from Life by Elisabeth Searcy279

XXXTappé's Creations Sketched for Woman as Decoration by Thelma Cudlipp289

XXXIMiss Elsie De Wolfe in Costume of Red Cross Nurse299

XXXIIMme. Geraldine Farrar in Spanish Costume as Carmen From Photograph by Courtesy of Vanity Fair309

XXXIIIMme. Geraldine Farrar in Japanese Costume as Madame Butterfly Sketched by Thelma Cudlipp319

"The Communion of men upon earth abhors identity more than nature does a vacuum. Nothing so shocks and repels the living soul as a row of exactly similar things, whether it consists of modern houses or of modern people, and nothing so delights and edifies as distinction."

Coventry Patmore.

"Whatever piece of dress conceals a woman's figure, is bound, in justice, to do so in a picturesque way."

From an Early Victorian Fashion Paper.

"When was that 'simple time of our fathers' when people were too sensible to care for fashions? It certainly was before the Pharaohs, and perhaps before the Glacial Epoch."

W. G. Sumner, in Folkways.