VERY DEMURE, VERY MINDFUL
[DRESS HABITS.]
Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua amica intorno al vestiario odierno.
[S.l.,] Impresso dal Curti del fu Giacomo, 1810.
8vo, pp. xvi (including printed wrappers); some light foxing, and paperflaw to final leaf; bound in later blue wrappers with old shelflabel on upper cover.
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Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua amica intorno al vestiario odierno.
Extremely rare set of six pious reflections on modern dress habits, ostensibly written by an anonymous lady to her friend.
The author believes that the demure dress and habits (in both senses) of nuns presents us with living examples of virtue, and argues that clothing from Adam onwards has been for us a matter of sadness and confusion, used for galantry, vanity, ambition, and seduction. She bemoans that Christian modesty is now seen as weakness, and pleads that we should clothe women with decency, according to their state and condition: ‘rather than seeking the fashions of the time, let them enrich themselves with holy works’.
Biblioteca femminile italiana, p. 406; but not recorded in OCLC or OPAC SBN.