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to match the skirt will make a long waist appear shorter. If the color 

 of the skirt is repeated in the tie, the division is not so abrupt. The 

 jumper dress has the benefits of the shirt waist, while the body is not 

 conspicuously halved. 



Straight lines have the same charm as arts and crafts work and 

 Egyptian drawings. They are especially suited to large, noble figures. 

 On the other hand, curves are more suave 'and expressive of aesthetic 

 qualities. The lines of the human figure are long curves, most of which 



Fig. 5. 



Fig. 6. 



A shirt waist cuts the figure In two. 



are vertical. Nobody could wear many lines going roimd and round the 

 body like hoops on a barrel or stripes on a barber pole. A large, mas- 

 sive woman should keep her own beauty and not try to w^ear a great 

 number of delicate lines suitable only to a sylph-like form. In nature 

 the delicate traceries are upon frail things, such as the veins in the leaf, 

 or the lines in a butterfly 's wings. 



In the belts of gowns, the lines straight across the waist makes the 

 waist look larger than a line which curves downward very slightly. 



