The Evolution of Fashion

CHAPTER I.

THE DRESS, B.C. 594--A.D. 1897.

"Fashions that are now called new Have been worn by more than you; Elder times have used the same, Though these new ones get the name."

_Middleton's "Mayor of Quinborough."_

A hard fate has condemned human beings to enter this mortal sphere without any natural covering, like that possessed by the l...