“THE LITTLE DRESSMAKER”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 4

“THE LITTLE DRESSMAKER”

INVITED TO WEDDING. MADE BRIDE'S LOVELY GOWN. As a lovely society bride walked up the aisle at Brompton Oratory in London, a timid little woman, quietly dressed in a simple frock made by herself, watched raptly from a seat at the back of the church. “She does look beautiful," the little woman murmured —“and I made her dress!” Then timid Miss Brereton, £3 lOs-a-week dressmaker and sempstress, blushed. She blushed with pride because she heard from the fashionable guests around her a whisper—“ What a delightful dress!" Well —was it not the .loveliest thing she had ever created? How could she be expected to resist the temptation of seeing it worn at the altar? Miss Brereton had taken four days to make the dress. And as she had sewed at night in her Bayswater lodgings. she had kept telling herself. ■“This must be the best thing 1 have ever done.” So pleased was the bride with her gown that she insisted no one but the sempstress should dress her on the wedding morning, no one but Miss Brereton should arrange the dress just before entering the church. And —yes, Miss Brereton must come to the reception, too. Never mind if she had nothing “terribly smart" to wear. After the reception Miss Brereton dressed the bride in her travelling costume, hung up the wedding gown, folded the veil, said good-bye to the bride’s mother, and went back by Tube to her lodgings.