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Updated: May 20, 2025
"She hed a figger jest like them fashion-paper pictures you 've seen, an' the very day any new styles come to Boston Fiddy Maddox would hev 'em before sundown; the biggest bustles 'n' the highest hats 'n' the tightest skirts 'n' the longest tails to 'em; she'd git 'em somehow, anyhow!
Some of the frocks were obviously home-made, but all were gorgeous, even in the case of one black-eyed habitant damsel who had constructed a confection, copied accurately and cleverly from some advanced fashion-paper, out of cheesecloth and paper muslin! One of the men was sacrificed to the phonograph, and for hours it never stopped going.
Simpson charged her genially with having been miserable in Plymouth until she was allowed to do good in her own way, and saw that she had beef-tea after every occasion of doing it. She became, in a way, of public character, and a lady journalist sent an account of her, with a photograph, to a well-known London fashion-paper.
First the bridegroom with Sárvölgyi, after them the bride, dressed in a white lawn robe, and wearing, if I am not mistaken, many theatrical jewels." Lorand interrupted impatiently: "You evidently think, uncle, that I shall write all this for some fashion-paper, as you are telling me in such detail about the costumes."
He could fancy how pretty Alice must have looked, in a dress adroitly constructed from the hints of a New York fashion-paper; how she must have looked down on the other women, chafing at her life, and secretly feeling that she belonged in a bigger place.
One day, she showed me what looked like a fashion-paper print of a dress-stuff a pretty oval medallion of stars on a striped grenadine background that somehow seemed familiar. 'How nice! What is it? I asked. 'Our National Flag, she replied. 'Indeed. But it doesn't look quite 'No. This is a new design for arranging the stars so that they shall be easier to count and more decorative in effect.
A pair of gray flannel trousers and boots out of which two toes peeped coyly completed the picture. Even Spike himself seemed to be aware that there were points in his appearance which would have distressed the editor of a men's fashion-paper. "'Scuse these duds," he said. "Me man's bin an' mislaid de trunk wit' me best suit in. Dis is me number two." "Don't mention it, Spike," said Jimmy.
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