What they Thought of the last New Dress.
What Adelaide said: '• I declare this dress makes me look five years younger. It's a love. Shan't I cut the other girls out now?" What the dressmaker said: " Thank goodness that's done. She's awful to fit." What the younger sister said: " Addy thinks she is going to get off now that she's got that frock." . What the bosom friend said:'" How very passe that colour makes dear Adelaide look. So trying, you know," What the housemaid said: " I Bhall tak© the pattern of that 'ere dress when she's oufc of the way." What papa said: " Another bill lor fal-lals? Shan't pay it. When I t?»s & young man, girls were taught to be sensible*" &c, &c.
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Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 37
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