ILLUSTRATIONS

I	Mme. Geraldine Farrar in Greek Costume as Thaïs Sketched by Thelma Cudlipp	([Frontispiece])
II	Woman in Ancient Egyptian Sculpture-Relief	[9]
III	Woman in Greek Art	[19]
IV	Woman on Greek Vase	[29]
V	Woman in Gothic Art Portrait Showing Pointed Head-dress	[39]
VI	Woman in Art of the Renaissance Sculpture-relief in Terra-cotta: The Virgin	[49]
VII	Woman in Art of the Renaissance Sculpture-relief in Terra-cotta: Holy Women	[59]
VIII	Tudor England Portrait of Queen Elizabeth	[69]
IX	Spain--Velasquez Portrait	[79]
X	Eighteenth Century England Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough	[89]
XI	Bourbon France Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Madame Vigée Le Brun	[99]
XII	Costume of Empire Period An English Portrait	[109]
XIII	Eighteenth Century Costume Portrait by Gilbert Stuart	[119]
XIV	Victorian Period (About 1840) Mme. Adeline Genée in Costume	[129]
XV	Late Nineteenth Century (About 1890) A Portrait by John S. Sargent	[139]
XVI	A Modern Portrait By John W. Alexander	[149]
XVII	A Portrait of Mrs. Philip M. Lydig By I. Zuloaga	[159]
XVIII	Mrs. Langtry (Lady de Bathe) in Evening Wrap	[169]
XIX	Mrs. Condé Nast in Street Dress Photograph by Baron de Meyer	[179]
XX	Mrs. Condé Nast in Evening Dress	[189]
XXI	Mrs. Condé Nast in Garden Costume	[199]
XXII	Mrs. Condé Nast in Fortuny Tea Gown	[209]
XXIII	Mrs. Vernon Castle in Ball Costume	[219]
XXIV	Mrs. Vernon Castle in Afternoon Costume--Winter	[229]
XXV	Mrs. Vernon Castle in Afternoon Costume--Summer	[239]
XXVI	Mrs. Vernon Castle Costumed À La Guerre for a Walk	[249]
XXVII	Mrs. Vernon Castle--A Fantasy	[259]
XXVIII	Modern Skating Costume--1917 Winner of Amateur Championship of Fancy Skating	[269]
XXIX A	Modern Silhouette--1917 Tailor-Made. Drawn from Life by Elisabeth Searcy	[279]
XXX	Tappé's Creations Sketched for Woman as Decoration by Thelma Cudlipp	[289]
XXXI	Miss Elsie De Wolfe in Costume of Red Cross Nurse	[299]
XXXII	Mme. Geraldine Farrar in Spanish Costume as Carmen From Photograph by Courtesy of Vanity Fair	[309]
XXXIII	Mme. Geraldine Farrar in Japanese Costume as Madame Butterfly Sketched by Thelma Cudlipp	[319]

"The Communion of men upon earth abhors identity more than nature does a vacuum. Nothing so shocks and repels the living soul as a row of exactly similar things, whether it consists of modern houses or of modern people, and nothing so delights and edifies as distinction."

Coventry Patmore.

"Whatever piece of dress conceals a woman's figure, is bound, in justice, to do so in a picturesque way."

From an Early Victorian Fashion Paper.

"When was that 'simple time of our fathers' when people were too sensible to care for fashions? It certainly was before the Pharaohs, and perhaps before the Glacial Epoch."

W. G. Sumner, in Folkways.

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I