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Money for dress material was scarce and
the average frontier women purchased enough material for one new dress per year, which
she then made. You will note that the cloth rack had just six bars to hold and display
the calico rolls of cloth. That was the extent of her selection. Time and again she
would send Mr. Sutton back to his sales book to find out exactly what cloth the ladies
who were in her church had purchased in a futile attempt to avoid duplication and yet be
in fashion. It was 'My Ladies Hat' that was all important — for a gown, let us
remember, may express the dressmaker, but a hat expresses the woman who wears
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