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The New Dress And The Dill Pickle

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A person once said it hurts to be pretty sometimes. Dressing up and wearing what now days would be considered fancier clothing was normal back then. Most of the stories and poems had the girls in elaborate dresses or expensive fur coats and men wore buttoned up dress shirts, neckties held by a pin. The women found the guys clothes attractive in a modest way. In The Dill Pickle it tells the thoughts of the girl judging the guys clothing, “his clothes were admirable.”(The Dill Pickle pg.741) The New Dress had the reaction of people in the fashion business fall in love with Mabel’s party dress. Mabel looked just fine, but her thoughts got the best of her and that’s when it hurt being pretty. It is common sense to know what is appropriate for

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