hat-scarves

Updated: May 15, 2025

And they used to deal out long silk hat-scarves to all the mourners silk that would stand alone, as they say and the wives made mantles and aprons of them. They went down from mother to daughter, like the best china and family spoons. That's how women took care of their clothes when I was young. They didn't want new frocks and fallals every week, like some folks I could name."

Ada Cambridge - Sisters