Similarities? Differences? Judgements? 

Lady Of Distinction, First. The Mirror of the Graces; The English Lady's Costume. 284. 

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"Elegant dressing is not found in expense; money without judgement may load, but never can adorn. You may show profusion without grace: you may cover a neck with pearls, a head with jewels, hands and arms with rings, bracelets and trinkets, and yet produce no effect, but having emptied some merchan'ts counter upon your person. The best chosen dress is that which so harmonizes with the figure as to make the raiment pass unobserved. The result of the finest toilet should be an elegant woman, not an elegantly dresses woman." You do not need immense amounts of money to be immensely elegant. You just need to know what fits you best.

"But in our days, an English woman has the extensive privilege of arraying herself in whatever garb may best suit her figure or her fancy. The fashions of every nation and of every era are open to her choice." You have countless dresses and jewels to choose from to wear. choose one that you feel conveys your inner self best.

"There is scarcely an observer of manners and their effects who will not maintain that the most beautiful and well-dressed woman will soon cease to please unless her charms are accompanied with the ineffable enchantment of a graceful demeanor"  It's nearly impossible to be completely beautiful without manners.

"Yet when we consider them merely in the outline, our pleasure can go farther than that of a cold critic who regards the finely-proportioned lineaments of life as he would those of a statue" Do not be stressed if your silhoette is not how society thinks it should be. Accept it for the natural beauty in it.

"As dancing is the accomplishment most calculated to display a fine form, elegant taste, and graceful carriage to advantage; so towards it, our regards must be particularly turned: and we shall find that when Beauty, in all her power is to be set forth, she cannot choose a more effective exhibition." Dancing is just the activity to pursue if you are aiming to show others your elegance, and complexity.