If a new fashion is unbecoming, either avoid it, or modify it into becomingness if you can.
Study the back, the sides, the lines produced, just as you study the becomingness of a hat from all angles.
Hence the need of a special virtue that maintains the becomingness of this order: and this virtue is called friendliness.
The becomingness of exercising this office is removed in two ways.
On the other hand man derives pleasure from the other senses, not only for this reason, but also on account of the becomingness of the sensible object.
Mr. Dinsmore assigned Mildred the seat of honor at his right hand, and complimented her on the becomingness of her attire.
A rule by which to judge of the becomingness of a hat and to which there is no exception is this--the hat must enhance your looks.
Some moralists to the contrary notwithstanding, the becomingness or the unbecomingness of what one wears reacts upon the wearer and makes her distrustful or confident, timid or courageous, and this in a not unworthy sense.
Hue and fit make for becomingness to a greater extent than elegance in material, though the latter is also an element of beauty in an all-round conception of the subject.
The actress was occasionally his guest, and he testifies to the becomingness and propriety of her behaviour; but sneers a little at that of her son, the Treasurer of Drury Lane, as being better than he had expected.
Burke thereupon sprang to his feet, and appealed to the House; was it consistent with becomingness and liberality to disturb the great master of eloquence?
I give you the two passages in full, trusting that you may so feel the becomingness of the one, and the gracelessness of the other.
Which I may not find time to draw for any poppy whatever, because they none of them have well-becomingness enough to make it worth my while, being all more or less weedy, and ungracious, and mingled of good and evil.
