“She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.”

—  Ada Leverson

Source: Tenterhooks (1912), Chapter x.

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British writer 1862–1933

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