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Updated: June 19, 2025
There were many curled darlings displaying their fine forms in the nattiest of uniforms, whose gloss had never suffered from so much as a heavy dew, let alone a rainy day on the march. The Confederate gray could be made into a very dressy garb. On our way we passed the noted Capitol of Virginia a handsome marble building, of the column-fronted Grecian temple style.
If I once gave up dress altogether, and knew I was to have nothing but one plain robe tied round my waist with a cord, it does seem to me as if it would be a perfect repose, only one is a Protestant, you know." Now, as Humming-Bird was the most notoriously dressy individual in the little circle, this suggestion was received with quite a laugh. But Dove took it up.
'Dear soul, she said, 'he's in Heaven, but the Lord's got work for me to do in this world yet, Sister Wynn. She's a leetle too dressy, and I'm most afraid will set the young folks here an example of extravagance; but I believe she means well, and expects to do her whole duty." "Well, I shall wait for her works to prove her disposition," said Mrs. Swan.
I hear her scold the young folks now for being so dressy, but I can tell you she was once that way herself. Did not I, sixty years ago, lie on the shelf and laugh as I saw her stand by the half hour before the glass, giving an extra twist to her curl and an additional dash of white powder on her hair now fretted because the powder was too thick, now fretted because it was too thin?
Nowadays a caudle party is a very gay, dressy affair, and given about six weeks after young master or mistress is ready to be congratulated or condoled with on his or her entrance upon this mundane sphere. We find in English books of etiquette very formal directions as to these cards of compliment. "Cards to inquire after friends during illness must be left in person, and not sent by post.
This coat here is what the working people are buying; sold a dozen suits myself this week to some of the mill workers very natty, sir, and only sixty-five dollars. If you'll look closely at the workers about town you'll see the same suits right dressy, you'll notice.
Between these curls, as they detach themselves from the head, the cranium is clean shaven, and the hair or tuft on the crown of the head, whence the several curls depend, covers a very small space. At the end of the braided curls is tied a piece of coloured string or narrow ribbon, the same as is done amongst our little dressy nymphs.
Josiah wuz bound to have a sack embroidered like one of theirn, and some wooden shoes, and caps with tossels he thought they wuz dressy and he wanted some big sleeves that he could use as a pocket; and then sez he "To have shoes that have a separate place for the big toe, what a boon for that dum old corn on that toe of mine that would be!" But I frowned on the idee; but sez he
She had no bent towards religion, was ruinously dressy and extravagant, unhousewifely as a woman could be; but Miss Pennycuick, great lady as she was, could cook and sew, was a master hand with servants and with children, and had never failed of interest in the church nor in him. They had always been the best of friends, he and she; did it not seem that Providence had decreed they should be more?
And then says he, a goin' on prouder and prouder every minute, "I am pretty-lookin'. I am what you might call a orniment to any car on the track. I kinder set a car off, and make 'em look respectable and dressy. And I'm what you might call a influential man, and I s'pose the railroad-men want to keep the right side of me. And they have took the right way to do it.
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