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A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS. IS
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
She has been established several years , knows her connexion _^ and can form a very near idea , from regularly mantles supplying each * those
generall customers y , requires how many during dresses the , or fashionable bonnets , or season . Madame one Coutourier will know the number of " drawing-rooms " there
the are to case be , " and be Lad " y State Belle balls usuall " y dej goes euners to two con " or ts three operas , as
may . ,, , , fetes lia ' s , trousseau & c , are . dul Mrs y calculated . Thoughtful upon ali , g also hts the from young her carriage Lady Ame , and - dress
re for quires the a " dress drawing for -room change , " of to mourning take place , and in of also ten Fitz a day court s' time and ;
in in two cidental the daug intervening hters orders also too * dail tim call e , come to the give in Countess and their perhaps similar onl - commands S y peed 24 hours ;
before it is required , Lad y y Hurry ; calls to decide upon her "Court-train . " is
a matter But then of all course this ; was it occurs expected as regul by Madam for arly it as e But the Coutourier she season considers — itself it ,
she and is she so oug that ht her to have young been slaves prepared " must sit . up later , that ' s all . " She does , not _perhaps approve of having " day-workers , " as they
three or carry , she her into may patterns her perh work aps out -room of be the prevailed if house she , finds and upon they that to become even admit with " two common sitting or even up ;"
all nighther own number , cannot prepare , for the " drawingroom she would . " _, But have she to would dispense fancy with she was her going " broug to ham be ruined " that , that the
" villa" at St . John ' s-wood or elsewhere must be , abandoned , that the Misses Coutourier could no longer learn the harp or if her business
as appear only in to require such rich 12 hours embroideries ' work per , day from each was . Madame so quiet Coutourier " could not endure the c systematic indulgence' of
it coming at 8 in into the the evening work . -room It is at more 8 in than the m those orning who , and earn quitting their ht
living this woman at their herself needle to have expect a ri in ght her to expect old . " for But her what system oug of
Belle slave driving ives a fortni , and ht oppression for her requirements ? No matter age , or , Lad whether y Hurry Lad 24 y
hours g she knows as g well how many on an average , she ought to employ , during the season , for 12 hours Madam a day , as tourier she does for 17 ? .
I rep And ly , how almost man without y does this exception same , the emp e Cou loyers of represent _neai'ly all _,, the fashionable " West-end houses" as they are technically
termed—those Milliners and Dressmakers , who pride themselves upon Reader being ! " if first-class hav . " e had the experience which I have
bought , you will you know it is these employers , and not
A Season With The Dressmakers. Is
A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS . IS
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/13/
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