box-parties

Updated: May 14, 2025

"I think things were probably different, a few generations ago," she went on, "but nowadays when fashions are so arbitrary, and change so fast, really and honestly, some of us, whose incomes are limited, will have to stop somewhere. Why, the very children expect box-parties, and motor-trips, and caterers' suppers, in these days.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne