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Excerpt from Hints on Dress, or What to Wear, When to Wear It, and How to Buy It
All this is, of course, with the higher classes. With the lower, there is not only no attempt at beauty, but none at even display. Vanity is ever a selfish senti ment, and the powerful have never allowed their social inferiors to imitate, even at a distance, the extravagant costumes so complacently worn by themselves. For the laborers, three thousand years ago, there were no tunics heavy with gold, or robes of fine linen fretted with uncouth designs in toilsome needlework. The weaver Of purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and the cunning worker, in brass and in gold, wore only a coarse woolen apron, or at most, a Short and Sleeveless tunic of the same material, bound at the waist with a rope Of camel's hair.
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