Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World. / To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

by Anonymous

Pain, sickness, time, and death, they dare defy.

When the pale tyrant’s hand shall seal your doom,

And lock your ashes in the silent tomb,

These beauties shall in double lustre rise,

Shine round the soul, and waft it to the skies.

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ART OF DETERMINING
THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY,
THE HABITS, AND THE AGE,
OF
WOMEN,
NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISES OF DRESS.

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OF FIGURE.

External indications as to figure are required chiefly as to the limbs which are concealed by drapery. Such indications are afforded by the walk, to every careful observer.

In considering the proportion of the limbs to the body—if, even in a young woman, the walk, though otherwise good, be heavy, or the fall on each foot alternately be sudden, and rather upon the heel, the limbs though well formed, will be found to be slender, compared with the body.