blue-checked

Updated: June 6, 2025

This was swaddled in the ugly apron of blue-checked gingham, fastened down the back with large bone buttons, and so long in the sleeves that the little hands were all but lost, and so long in the skirt that only the ends of the small copper-toed shoes showed beneath.

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself