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14 A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKEKS.
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
their Do not patronesses thinkhowever , that are that to be I _charge advocate d with the these cause atrocities of Lad . y
Hurry , and those , of her , school : on the contrary , I repudiate it in the most forcible manner possiblebecause it isin the
first place , most inconsiderate , and in the , second , thoug , h we all know that among many hands a Court-dress can be
made in in such twelve has hours teit , is it is but not indifferentl to be wondered y made at . , if Mourning being made I
up admitis always required , speedily , but even this gives room for , no excuse , as there are always plenty of young dressmakers
requiring dail , y employment—possessing good recommendations , and whom it would even amount to a charity to employas long
only as the pressure requires it . , I will just mention a little circumstance occurring to myself ,
in common with another , three years ago . I was then dishouses charging . Among the duties the of order u first s - in hand hand " at at one the of tim tHese e of fashionable which I
been speak , working was a large ni ? _ieteen trousseau hours a for day the for Lad several y 0- weeks . , We and had in
addition to the trousseau we had to prepare the equipments for twelve bride ' s-maids . I had long foreseen it would be ,
impossible to complete the order in time without more assistance . The wedding was appointed to take place on the
Thursday at St . George's Church , Hanover Square . On the preceding Monday , I repeated to the Principal a request I
had previously made for u day assistants , " or I could not get the order leted in timeI was met as beforebthe
comp . , y rep know ly , well u What you h can I never 't do b admit y day , day you -workers must d 6 into by ni my ght work ; you
room to take enoug away my patterns , and I am surprised you should expect me to break the rules in this instance . " The consequence
was and , went that down Tuesday the and street Wednesday lamps were nig extinguished hts came—the the moon business rose
of the succeeding , morning commenced—and we , had 7 iever left our work . The bridal order was completed and sent
home just sufficiently in time for all to appear at church . One of the French milliners and myself had changed our dresses
and were there also to distribute the u favors . " Noon found my dress again changed , and I was waiting upon two ladies in
a fashionable hotel in Belgravia , and it was two o ' clock on Friday morning before we were permitted to rest our wornout frames in beds which had not been occupied since six a . m .
on the previous Tuesday . Is it to be wondered at , that the termination of " the season" in Augustsent nearly all home to their
own friends to lie upon a sick bed , ? And such was indeed the
months case , ray ' duration own illness . , I inflammation had been away of the but brain little , being better of than three a
14 A Season With The Dressmakeks.
14 A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKEKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/14/
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