costume-effects

Updated: July 26, 2025

Besides, they had an eye to the great job I had mentioned to them they had secretly set their hearts on supplying the right essence for my pictorial vindication of our fine novelist. They knew that for this undertaking I should want no costume-effects, none of the frippery of past ages that it was a case in which everything would be contemporary and satirical and, presumably, genteel.

Henry James - The Real Thing