Minnie got pictures an' patterns from Boston; scanted the
skirt; took in the sleeves; made a wide girdle with the breadths she
took out of the front--an' there she was again, high-steppin' as ever!"
Robert Morton laughed with appreciation.
"Since then," continued Celestina, "for at least fifteen years she's
been makin' that dress over an' over. Now she'll get a new breadth of
goods or a couple of breadths, turn the others upside down or cut 'em
over, an' by keepin' everlastingly at it she contrives to look like the
pictures in the papers most of the time. It's maddenin' to the rest of
us. Abbie Brewster knows Minnie well an' somewhere in a book she's got
set down the gyrations of that dress. I wouldn't be bothered recordin'
it but Abbie always was a methodical soul. She could give you the date
of every inch of satin in the whole thing. Just now there's 1914
sleeves; the front breadths are 1918; the back ones 1911. Most of the
waist is January, 1912, with a June, 1913, vest. Half the girdle is
made out of 1910 satin, an' half out of 1919.
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