MY OLD BLACK FROCK.
When party invitations come for |0 you, > [| She says, perhaps, that she's g invited, too. S "It will be nice," you say, "if S ' you are there, i|J And, by the way, what are you g going to wear 1" " Oh, just my old black frock," g she says, " you know, Tho little rag I had some time a a S°-" , 1 So, as you don't want to be over- jg dressed, @ You wear an old one, too, and E|j not your best. j|j But when you see her there, || she wears, you find, A sumptuous robe of quite tho [g] latest kind, § Beside her you feel shabby. It's [gj //a shock. S Not what ycu pictured as her j|j "old black frock!" gj —Joan Jefferson. S
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20656, 30 August 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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131MY OLD BLACK FROCK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20656, 30 August 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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