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    306 OVEBWOKKED DBESSMAKERS AND

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    . establishment , when tlie engagement was made , that he should than take her in the away first if she instance were kep quoted t up late but . much These shorter hours are than longer in

    save London but . Country do not mak milliners e enormous are not , fortunes ruined , . they So live overwork well and is

    not necessary ; to maintain the trade . It Is true that house dressmaking rent is cheaper are than also much in London lower , but I have then read their and ch heard arges that for

    . hours at Leaming for dressmakers ton and other are almost fashionable as long watering , during the places autumn , the

    extend me and probable winter over , which , the if a whole is twelve their hours country season ' bill , , as th were in at London engagements passed . , and It appears made for six to to

    months would become common . Milliners would keep the extr same a hands number necessitated of yearly by residents the short as hours they would do now probabl , but y the be

    the engaged spring by and the summer half year in , London and these and girl during s would the work autumn during and

    winter London at milliners Brighton coul , Ch d not eltenham object , , to Leaming thisbecause ton , Torquay at the , end & c .

    new of the ones season will be their required patterns next , & c spring , cease . to And , be country of any milliners value , as

    who would knew be g the lad last to engage fashions girl in s town for the : the watering place ent season there- , arrangem

    hours fore One , appears ' bill of the is unobj the objections great ectionable difficulty commonl . which y broug would ht ag be ainst experienced a short

    according Perhap in inspecting s a to , plan the such London which a large was Directory number adopted of , to establishments in nearl a manufacturing y seventeen , amounting and hundred which town .

    proved town some perfectl year y s ago effectual to enforce , might the be Ten of use Hour in s' diminishing Bill , Various the

    benevolent difficulties of persons inspecting combined millinery to pay establishments a lawyer to . protect the

    306 Ovebwokked Dbessmakers And

    306 OVEBWOKKED DBESSMAKERS AND

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/18/