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TWO VICTORIAN FASHION PLATES
wearing fancy feathers in stiff-coiffeured hair a rope of pearls hung about her forehead she holds a floral pomander and tweaks a blue silk fan between fine-tapered fingers of an alabaster hand held just below a cruel-pinched waist where the petticoat emerges from a pointed panel of her purple tunic fastened to a bell-glass crinoline like some arrested cataract decorated vertically in pleats flounced and trimmed with bows while white satin slippers peep shyly out from underneath concisely counterpointing voluminosity
Her neck nestles on a frothy ruff set off by opal-drop necklace and severely-parted hair hangs about rouged cheeks and startling eyes but in her face serenity is absent and her lips pursed straight all passionless incapable of kissing and inviting none except perhaps some rogue who may attempt it for a dare cosidering reward of coins to outweigh reward of certain slap
in outfliers to squash her bosoms ovally smudging out the cleavage all controlled by a merciless back-laced corset contrived to choke her breath her shape deform
~ Stanley ~
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