Wholly aside from aesthetic and moral considerations, fashion is an
economic absurdity, and there is little to be said in its favor.
Nevertheless, we can appreciate the wisdom in Gina Lombrero’s belief 【M1】_________
the enormous stress which women lay on everything pertaining with 【M2】_________
clothes and the art of personal adornment is connected with the
tendency to crystallize sentiment into an object. A woman symbolizes
every important event in her life by a special dress; and a jewel or a
beautiful gown means to a woman that an official decoration means to a 【M3】_________
man.
The temptation of dress is the last step in the ceremony to the 【M4】_________
novice has to submit before entering the cloister. The memory of the
gown which she might have worn was the strongest temptation that assailed
St. Catherine before she took her solemn vows—a gown, embroidering 【M5】_________
with gold and stars,like that her sisters had worn, which her 【M6】_________
grandchildren would have gazed with eyes filled with wonder and 【M7】_________
admiration…
It a woman’s clothes cost the family and society a little time, money
and activity, they allow woman, independent in lies and calumnies, to 【M8】_________
triumph and come to the fore outside of man’s world and competition.
They allow woman to satisfy with her desire to be the first in the most 【M9】_________
varied fields by giving her the illusion that she is the first, and at the
same time enable her rival to have the same illusion. Clothes absorb 【M10】________
some of woman’s activity which might otherwise be diverted to more or
less worth-while ends; they give woman real satisfaction.
【M7】
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