Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...children - real children, after the Dress Reform's own heart - do not "load their frames with useless and cumbersome garments, destructive alike to health and grace...
...beautiful as the bowers of the Arabian Nights, to Aspinwall, a city infinitesimally small and infinitely bad. On the whole, my "Search after Happiness" in tropical climes had not been a startling success, and I determined to take the first opportunity to reach a civilized country where the Dress Reform had not such complete sway, and where one could search for a lady with Diogenes's lantern; though I fear even that would be useless...
...found. Away went the hunting-party over fences, ditches, and stone-walls, more after the manner of a steeple-chase than a fox-hunt. The gentlemen were easily distinguished, for the most part, by their red waistcoats and jockey caps, the ladies (for there were four) by their black dress and hat. Along the fields to the woods they move, and soon emerge on the other side just in sight. Here the trail seemed for a moment lost, but was found stretching back to the other side of the road within fifty feet of the place where we were...
...Dress, white tights, orange and black bands around knees; stripped to the waist...
...Dress, blue handkerchiefs, white drawers; stripped to the waist...