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vish, and abject surrender of her own natural
taste and independent judgment to the fetish of
fashion, very seriously weakens and degrades the
whole character of woman. Trifling and
contemptible as it is in itself, it is no trifle in its
demoralizing results. Character is not developed
by great occasional events, but by the continuous
pressure of daily incidents and habits, and this
ever-present eagerness to bow and cringe and
crawl under the yoke of fashion produces a
permanent curvature in the spine of a woman’s
soul.
When women shall have so far emancipated
themselves from this tyranny as to select their clothing
according to the dictates of common sense,
convenience, economy, good taste, and artistic elegance :
when they choose good, useful, and beautiful
dresses, and wear them out; when the fluctuations
of their fashions present no other changes than
those demanded by change of season, the
variations of age, personal peculiarities, the growth
of taste, and improvements of materials, then they
may be credited with sufficient stability of
judgment and independence of character to be entrusted
with a share in the government of the nation ; and,
what is far more important, they will be more
respected by each other and by the opposite sex,
and thereby exercise the full force of that moral
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