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"If I were you," said his aunt, "I'd stop in at Bush & Company, tailors, and have a couple of nice suits of clothes made a specially good one for Sunday and another one for general dress-up wear. You should have a new overcoat, too, and some other nice things. You're nineteen years old now, Bob, and you've been working pretty hard this summer, and not paying much attention to your clothes.
"But your things are all packed, and you're to go this afternoon," said Mona. "Well, it's morning now; why borrow trouble? Let's have some fun instead." "Yes, let's!" and Mona brightened up. "Let's go on a picnic!" "I hate picnics," said Daisy; "they're no fun. Let's motor over to Lakeville." "I hate Lakeville," said Patty. "Let's have a dress-up party of some kind."
For example, we learned that people in real life actually wore monocles, something, which I, of course, had known to be true but which had seemed nevertheless an unreality, part of a stage play, a "dress-up" game for children and amateur actors.
Brown would let them play there, and also let them take some of their old clothes, in which to "dress-up." "Have as much fun as you like," said Mrs. Brown, "but don't slide down in any hens' nests with eggs in them," she added to Sue. "I won't, Mother." Bunny fixed the hollow lobster claw, with a string in a hole on either side of it, so he could tie it on his nose.
Guess Aunt Maria'd say I'm in a place too tony for me, but I know I can learn how to do here. I might have remembered that some people make of their evening meal a formal one. I've read about "dressing for dinner" and when my first opportunity comes to do so it finds me with all my dress-up dresses packed in a trunk in the express office!
The girls had decided to about live in their khaki tramping suits on this trip, merely packing in a good dress or two to wear on dress-up occasions. In this way they had to take less luggage and could have more space to "spread out" as Mollie said. "Put your grip in here, Betty," Mollie suggested, as she slung her own grip into the tonneau of the big machine. "There is more room, and Mrs.
Have I told you about my new play? Mac is writing one; really for me this time. You see, I'm coming on." "I've seen nothing else. What kind of a part is it? Shall you wear yellow gowns? I hope so." He was looking at her round slender figure, as she stood by the piano, turning over a pile of music, and he felt the energy in every line of it. "No, it isn't a dress-up part.
About all a fellow could do after he'd come back from Sunday school was to sit round with his feet cramped into the shoes and stockings which he never wore on week days and with the rest of him incased in starchy, uncomfortable dress-up clothes just sit round and sit round and itch. You couldn't scratch hard either.
"Let's scramble them away so as not to keep mother waiting." "We'll put them right on the top in the box," said Mary Jane, "'cause we'll want to play some more lots!" And they did, many times. One morning a few days after the dress-up fun Aunt Effie had to go down town on some errands and Mary Jane was left to play by herself.
"Laws, mother!" said Miss Mela; "what you got that old thing on for? If I'd 'a' known you'd 'a' come down in that!" "Coonrod said it was all right, Mely," said her mother. Miss Mela explained to the Marches: "Mother was raised among the Dunkards, and she thinks it's wicked to wear anything but a gray silk even for dress-up."
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