Book/Printed Material The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc


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Title
The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc
Contributor Names
Thornwell, Emily.
Created / Published
Derby & Jackson, New York, 1857, monographic.
Subject Headings
-  Etiquette
Genre
directory
book
Notes
-  By Emily Thornwell ... (statement of responsibility)
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. (additional physical form)
Form
print
electronic resource
remote
Extent
xvi p., 1 l., 11-226 p. front. 19 cm.
Repository
Music Division
Library of Congress Control Number
35038368
Language
English
Online Format
online text
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image
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Directory. Book. print | xvi p., 1 l., 11-226 p. front. 19 cm. | By Emily Thornwell ... (Statement Of Responsibility). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. (Additional Physical Form). Print (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). dom out of fashion. They are especially proper in white and black dresses. It is sometimes good economy to make the sleeve of a dress in two separate parts, so that the lower portion can be taken off at pleasure. For an evening dress this is found very convenient, as when the under part is removed, a lace can be placed upon the short sleeve, thus giving a very dressy and tasteful appearance. Silk and other heavy dresses should be lined, but muslins and calicoes look better when hemmed at the bottom of the skirt. It is a good plan to set a worsted braid around the inside of the bottom of nice dresses, of the same color, and projecting one quarter of an inch below the material. Much wear is thus avoided, and the braid can easily be replaced. We have been thus explicit with regard to the minutiae of dressmaking hoping that we might add many to the present numbtr of ladies whose interest and pleasure it is to be their own dressmakers. THE END.
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Chicago citation style:

Thornwell, Emily. The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility in Manners, Dress, and Conversation ... Also a Useful Instructor in Letter Writing, Toilet Preparations, Fancy Needlework, Millinery, Dressmaking, Care of Wardrobe, the Hair, Teeth, Hands, Lips, Complexion, Etc. Derby & Jackson, New York, monographic, 1857. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/35038368/.

APA citation style:

Thornwell, E. (1857) The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility in Manners, Dress, and Conversation ... Also a Useful Instructor in Letter Writing, Toilet Preparations, Fancy Needlework, Millinery, Dressmaking, Care of Wardrobe, the Hair, Teeth, Hands, Lips, Complexion, Etc. Derby & Jackson, New York, monographic. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/35038368/.

MLA citation style:

Thornwell, Emily. The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility in Manners, Dress, and Conversation ... Also a Useful Instructor in Letter Writing, Toilet Preparations, Fancy Needlework, Millinery, Dressmaking, Care of Wardrobe, the Hair, Teeth, Hands, Lips, Complexion, Etc. Derby & Jackson, New York, monographic, 1857. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/35038368/>.