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A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS. 185
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Chapter'vi. • I " Milliners Have Already...
s own , t the assistants time promised could and . execute If I took _punctuall day more workers y orders , I gave to than assist all I the felt in skirts the my
great « work assistants out to -room horror be made there at of the , day are other -workers both engaged parts good , . but Many and with - bad houses these , skilful , profess as with and to in stup have -door id a ,
respectable , and disreputable , and principals must use their jud S gment peaking occasion in of the a most punctualit selection fashionable y . , and the wedding want taking of it , I place remember at Hich on
mond I one was ; honoured a niece of three one day of s our before great the statesmen marriage , bein with g the the bride order .
bridal for three trousseau of the , I bridesmaids had nothing ' dresses to do with , head . M dresses y order , had & c . to The be had the leasure of
. sent to Harrowwas in ample time , and I p hearing had given , great satisfaction bridesmaids . The bridal did not dress arrive I was till
the informed evening by of the the mother wedding of the day _, so that the she , bride had had to go to
times church before in a white So much silk evening for the punctuality dress which of the house worn honored
many-. with the work order -rooms of th were at bridal situated trousseau on the . second and third floors ; My
front lation rooms and fresh with two air windows The bed , g -rooms iving an were abundance equally airy of venti and
-. , were only furnished professed with to supp every ly thing plain proper fare , but for butter use it . was for Of breakfast good cours and e I
unlimited dinner at . 1— Tea hot or coffee joint with and bread vegetables and and bread , or cold : bof
kindOccameat and sionall bread , y always and . At by accompanied 5 way o ' clock of change tea with y pudd , a bread fish ings and dinn some butter er with : and vegetables . I may
here statethat at all these , three meals I presided myself , and meal illness partook when compelled with , their my young my day bein 's peop duties g absent le , excep were . ting As over supper onl , they y when was took perchance their this last by
themselves , when they would laugh , talk , and make merry , For and those those frequentl who who , wished y liked have to to a hav read dance e , a my walk among books after themselves were work always could after available do suppei so by \ ;
coming or 10 . m . to at me which first hour , but I had I never the house allowed locked any up one for the out ni after ght .
I p have , already mentioned that it is the custom in many millinery whether cann naming ot be . they houses too In my strong have , house to l turn friends y censure , my all to assistants their d go , for young to reasons or always not peop too ; le foun a obvious out practice d on a comfort Sunday to which need - , them
able home on Sundays , and hot dinner provided for . On
A Season With The Dressmakers. 185
A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS . 185
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/41/
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