File:A Neat Linen Suit (fashion vignette 1904).jpg

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English: another fashion vignette from 1904, with a lengthy caption describing the clothes worn by the characters.
  • Text: Miss Van Orm went to the depot to meet her mother. She wore a champagne colored linen suit, with a red leather belt, and a red tie, and a champagne colored hat, trimmed with a ruche of red ribbon, the color of her tie. Miss Van Orm is a blond, but the red was a deep red and added to her daintiness instead of cheapening it, as a brick red or a brighter red would have done.
Mrs. Terry's Susan gave notice the day before Elizabeth Van Orm came to their house. I don't believe in talking over other people's affairs with a member of this household, but I couldn't very well help hearing what Susan said when she came into my own kitchen to say it.
Little Lucy had no sooner been sent to New York than Miss Van Orm's letter came, saying that she was coming at once to visit Mrs. Terry. Mr. Brenton doesn't approve of my telling of it and I wouldn't if it hadn't turned out as it did. Susan is still with the Terry's and Elizabeth Van Orm has been there two weeks. I couldn't help but ask her, the other morning, if she had had her wages raised.
"No," she said, "I just changed my mind. There's company, Mrs. Brenton," says she, "and there's COMPANY," and Miss Elizabeth is COMPANY! I've worked at places before now where a young woman in the house meant six meals a day and six white petticoats a week, to say nothing of the tidying up of her room. But with Miss Elizabeth it is different. She gets up for breakfast, that's one difference; she eats lunch with the rest of the family, that's two; she tells me if she isn't coming home for dinner, that three. Then she is still different. She hangs up her clothes, that five (and it's a big five, too); she keeps things either out or in her trunk, and she doesn't fill the floor with everything and leave it there every time she dresses; that makes about ten points in her favor. Land sakes! it's not trouble just to lay an extra plate, and Miss Elizabeth eats what is set before her and isn't keeping Mrs. Terry and me bothering all of the time to scheme up something that she will eat. She's got a good appetite, has Miss Elizabeth, and she is as neat as a pin. Mrs. Van Orm is coming Monday, and if she is like her daughters, I'm theirs for life. Mrs. Terry didn't even ask me to stay, Mrs. Brenton, after that girl had been in the house over night; they would have had to drive me away. There's company and there's COMPANY, and Miss Elizabeth's COMPANY."
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Source http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-05-09/ed-1/seq-2/ (The Tacoma Times)
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Cowles  (fl. 1904)  wikidata:Q113131431
 
Description fashion illustrator
Work period 1904 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q113131431

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