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"It was odd, though, to preach about it on Thanksgiving," Miss Jackson opined; and her hostess drily rejoined: "Oh, he ive thanks for what's left"
Archer had been wont to smile at these annual vaticinations of his e, as he listened to an enues, that the "trend" was visible
"The extravagance in dress--" Miss Jackson began "Sillerton took ht of the Opera, and I can only tell you that Jane Merry's dress was the only one I recognised froed Yet I know she got it out frooes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears the, as if it were not such an enviable thing to be in an age when ladies were beginning to flaunt abroad their Paris dresses as soon as they were out of the Custo them mellow under lock and key, in the manner of Mrs Archer's contemporaries
"Yes; she's one of the few In ar to dress in the newest fashions; and Amy Sillerton has always told me that in Boston the rule was to put away one's Paris dresses for two years Old Mrs Baxter Penniloho did everything handsomely, used to import twelve a year, two velvet, two satin, two silk, and the other six of poplin and the finest cash order, and as she was ill for two years before she died they found forty-eight Worth dresses that had never been taken out of tissue paper; and when the girls left off theirthey were able to wear the first lot at the Sy in advance of the fashion"
"Ah, well, Boston is more conservative than New York; but I always think it's a safe rule for a lady to lay aside her French dresses for one season," Mrs Archer conceded
"It was Beaufort who started the new fashion byhis wife clap her new clothes on her back as soon as they arrived: I ina's distinction not to look likelike " Miss Jackson glanced around the table, caught Janey's bulging gaze, and took refuge in an unintelligible murmur
"Like her rivals," said Mr Sillerton Jackson, with the air of producing an epigram
"Oh,--" the ladies hter's attention fro hasn't been a very cheerful one, I'm afraid Have you heard the rumours about Beaufort's speculations, Sillerton?"