 The ladies have strange ways of adding to their charms. They powder themselves immoderately, face, neck, and arms, with pulverised starch ; the effect is indescribably disagreeable by day-light^ and not very favourable at any time. They are also most...  Domestic Manners of the Americans - Strana 134autor/autoři: Frances Milton Trollope - 1832Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Matthew Flournoy Ward - 1853 - 372 str.
...with pulverized starch; the effect is indescribably disagreeable by daylight, and not very favorable at any time. They are also most unhappily partial...fashion to arise from an indolent mode of making their toilct, and from accomplished ladies' maids not being very abundant ; it is less trouble to append... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 str.
...adding to their charms. They powder themselves immoderately, face, neck, and arms, with pulverized starch; the effect is indescribably disagreeable by...false hair, which they wear in surprising quantities. ... I suspert tliis fashion to arise from an indolent mode of making their toilet, and from accomplished... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 str.
...their charms. They powder themselves immoderately, face, neck, and arms, with pulverized starch; tiie } , ... I suspect this fashion to arise from an Indolent mode of making their toilet, and from accomplished... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 str.
...pulverized starch ; the effect is indescribably -disagreeable by day-light, and not very favorable at any time. They are also most unhappily partial...false hair, which they wear in surprising quantities. I suppose this fashion arises from an indolent mode of making their toilet, and from accomplished ladies... | |
 | Alan W. Hirshfeld - 2002 - 340 str.
...adding to their charms," Englishwoman Frances Trollope wrote during her antebellum travels in America. "They powder themselves immoderately, face, neck,...by day-light, and not very favourable at any time." Certainly many women viewed powdering as an unhealthy evil, a practice that blocked the pores but stimulated... | |
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