The mouth, our author
would have rather small, and neither projecting to a point, nor quite
flat, with the lips not too thin, and fitting neatly together; an
accidental opening, that is, when the woman is neither speaking nor
laughing, should not display more than six upper teeth. As delicacies
of detail, he mentions a dimple in the upper lip, a certain fullness of
the under lip, and a tempting smile in the left corner of the mouth--
and so on. The teeth should not be too small, regular, well marked off
from one another, and of the color of ivory; and the gums must not be
too dark or even like red velvet. The chin is to be round, neither
pointed nor curved outwards, and growing slightly red as it rises; its
glory is the dimple. The neck should be white and round and rather long
than short, with the hollow and the Adam's apple but faintly marked;
and the skin at every movement must show pleasing lines. The shoulders
he desires broad, and in the breadth of the bosom sees the first
condition of its beauty. No bone may be visible upon it, its fall and
swell must be gentle and gradual, its color 'candidissimo.' The leg
should be long and not too hard in the lower parts, but still not
without flesh on the shin, which must be provided with white, full
calves. He likes the foot small, but not bony, the instep (it seems)
high, and the color white as alabaster.
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