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What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley
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WHAT DRESS MAKES OF US

By

DOROTHY QUIGLEY


Illustrations by
ANNIE BLAKESLEE


1897




I am indebted to the editors of the New York _Sun_ and
New York _Journal_ for kindly allowing me to include in
this book articles which I contributed to their
respective papers.




PREFACE.

Did you ever observe, dear comrade, what an element of caricature lurks
in clothes? A short, round coat on a stout man seems to exaggerate his
proportions to such a ridiculous degree that the profile of his manly
form suggests "the robust bulge of an old jug."
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