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Excerpt from Dress as a Fine Art: With Suggestions on Children's Dress The fact that we derive our styles of dress'from the same source as the English, and that the work of Mrs. Merrifield has been circulated among the forty thousand subscribers of the London Art Journal, might perhaps be deemed sufficient apology for offering it in its present form to the American public. It has received the unqualified approbation of the best publications in this country; entire chapters having been copied into the periodicals of' the day; this added to the above, and also to the high standing of the author, has induced the publishers to offer. It to the great reading public of this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.