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Updated: June 13, 2025
She was a Senator's wife, and she jumped like anything. Joy said, 'What a shame! but I think it's real silly in people to wear blue silk morning-dresses, because then you can't wear anything any nicer, and you won't feel dressed up in the afternoon a bit.—Oh, I forgot! this isn't Sunday! "Well, we all went to church this morning to Dr. Gurley's church. Dr. Gurley is a Presbyterian, father says.
All the other gentlemen, though their usual morning-dresses were sufficiently fantastic trunk-hose of every form, stockings bright as paroquets, wondrous shirts, and velvet-coats of every tint habited themselves to-day, both as regards form and color, in a style indicative of the subdued gravity of their feelings. Lord St.
Neither is it within my memory's scope to enlarge on the Countess Dowager of Lumberdale and her seven charming daughters, in elegant morning-dresses, appearing at the poll, where they shook hands with everybody, and shewed a singular acquaintance with family history; nor to relate how Lord Littlemore, Stopford's brother-in-law, and the proudest peer in England, made calls on small shopkeepers and farmers, perhaps to shew what rank could do on important occasions.
The marriage service I can read in ten minutes whenever I need its solace; rich morning-dresses are to be seen by scores in the Academy of Music at every matinee, as garnish to Verdi's music; and as to Miss Kitty Jones, I am sure that she, like all brides, never looked so ill as she did to-day.
A silk, in those days, took only ten yards in the making, and one dark silk was considered a reasonable allowance to a lady's wardrobe. Once made, it stood for something, always worn carefully, it lasted for years. One or two calico morning-dresses, and a merino for winter wear, completed the list.
And as if he had construed the oath that answered him as an exclamation of assent, he began: "In June, a Hungarian costume with jacket and sash, two train dresses with upper skirts and trimmings of lace, a Medicis polonaise, a jockey costume, a walking costume, a riding-habit, two morning-dresses, a Velleda costume, an evening dress."
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