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Dreſs.
catch the eye and divide the attention. Dreſs ought to adorn the perſon, and not rival it. It may be ſimple, elegant, and becoming, without being expenſive; and ridiculous faſhions diſregarded, while ſingularity is avoided. The beauty of dreſs (I ſhall raiſe aſtoniſhment by ſaying ſo) is its not being conſpicuous one way or the other; when it neither diſtorts, or hides the human form by unnatural protuberances. If ornaments are much ſtudied, a conſciouſneſs of being well dreſſed will appear in the face—and ſurely this mean pride does not give much ſublimity to it.
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