Mr. Glackens' Ready Made Renoir

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ago the boys would have said she was a sweet plump little thing, but now her roundness spoke of health in these days when a full pantry was quite the luxury for everyone, The little sailor hat with the pompom was quite popular and there was always the chance that she'd run into another girl who might be wearing the same thing. She was still sewing most of her clothes. but she saved her pennies carefully and now again she'd spend a little too much like she had with the dress when she found it in the Sears catalog
When she was a teen, smoking cigarettes and going places a teen had no business going she had assumed that by now she would be wearing French things like the older girls she knew back then. She was never sorry she bought the dress; with its mid-calf hemline it was perfectly suitable for any kind of fun she might have in the middle of they day in the city. Beside she had never owned a dress with a zipper before.
Keeping the white gloves spotless challenged her some, but ...

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studio, she swore she'd never wear that dress again. What a plain Jane she was, she thought. When her girls friends told her how smart she looked she knew what they meant, proper, because it was exactly the same thing she would say about girls who were cold fish, of the prim and proper sort. However, soon after Mr. Glackens was finished, people she barely knew would come up to her and say aren't you the girl in that lovely dress that Mr. Glackens painted and she fell in love with it again just like the first time she had seen it in the Sears catalog.

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So I hear that I am to wear something fairly conventional tomorrow to sedate them before the wedding. ...

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