REPORT ON FASHIONS
This is how an accomplished society reporter, on a Dakotah Territory paper gave his readers an idea of a “ social,” with his description of the costumes worn by the ladies of the party. “ Maty Monroe, red frock, white sack, and hair bunched ; Emma Lat'obe. yellow dress and high-heeled slippers ; Marion Willoughby, some kind of thin stuff, white, and tied up with blue tape and hair frizzled ; Jennie Murchison, black clothes and a feather in her hair ; Bella Wexford, red hair, and grey suii, flat in front and stuck out behind ; Pauline Tresly, bigger’n a tub, and dressed to the top branch ; she had on a velvet outfit a mile long, and sixteen rows of teeth on her gloves ; her hair was a dead yellow, and tied up like a bun, and had a lot of vegetables in it, Florence Ross, green dress flipped with velvet, and hoisted uo to the side with a white check rein. Vinnie Hammersly, white net work with red streaks, walked with a limp, and hair frescoed.”
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Patea Mail, 28 October 1881, Page 4
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174REPORT ON FASHIONS Patea Mail, 28 October 1881, Page 4
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