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Updated: June 18, 2025
Gray will be just the color for you; and with a touch of blue, and your white hair Oh, you'll be lovely, Miss Doane." Again the willing salesladies were given their instructions, and gray dresses and gray suits were placed before her. Drusilla passed over the suits with hardly a look, but fingered lovingly the soft crepes and chiffons. "I don't like the heavy things," she said.
She took to wearing high, ruffled things about her throat, and softening, kindly chiffons. And then, in a mistaken moment, they planned a revival of "Splendour." Sarah Haddon would again play the part that had become a classic. Fathers had told their children of it of her beauty, her golden voice, the exquisite grace of her, the charm, the tenderness, the pathos.
Helen's place in the huge department store was behind a counter where spangled nets and embroidered chiffons were sold. It had seemed to Helen today that half the world must be giving a ball to which the other half was invited, so constant in spite of the rain were the calls for her wares.
I'd probably be rushing round for freckle lotion and patent nose pins, to give me a Greek-boy effect. I'd take to swathing myself in chiffons and have my hair a different tint each season. I think every business woman would do the same, too if she had the chance. We have to fool ourselves to keep on going down the broad highway; or else we would be sanitarium devotees, neurasthenic muddles.
They could not forget his own tint as he lay with his cheek upon the black stone. Sadie had chattered about tailor-made dresses and Parisian chiffons. Now she was clinging, half-crazy, to the pommel of a wooden saddle, with suicide rising as a red star of hope in her mind. Humanity, reason, argument all were gone, and there remained the brutal humiliation of force.
Or and this happened often a fantastic recognition of the obvious fact that even butterflies must die, had abruptly started into their minds, obtruding a skeleton head above the billowing chiffons, rattling its bones until the dismal sound outvied the frou-frou of silk, the burr of great waving fans, the click of high heels from Paris.
"Have a care of my frock do not crush my chiffons.... And these are the women for whom men break their heads and hearts!" "I tell you, sir," came urgently from Ryder, "that the girl is innocent of all " "Keep your tongue from her name and your eyes from her face!... Come, madame."
And in the eye of more than one girl the wish was transmuted into a tear, into something more tender, more transported, than a laugh, as the log, in a final spurt, gave all, and fell, like a tired dancer, upon the broad hearth, its rosy chiffons crumpled and fading into the pale gray of wood-ashes. "There it goes!"
There were no sleeveless gowns, no elaborate decolletes. Taffetas, chiffons and silk brocades were developed simply into gowns of dignified charm. One did not notice individual gowns, for no one woman was dressed more elaborately than another. This is what everyone should strive for simplicity with charm and a complete absence of all conspicuousness. Fashion has been condemned.
And, in the full light under the window, Mere-Grand and Marie likewise had their particular table, where needlework, embroidery, all sorts of /chiffons/ and delicate things lay about near the somewhat rough jumble of retorts, tools and big books.
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