“Like a magpie’s nest, it was. Everything seemed woefully disorganized, as did Dottie herself, but amidst all this chaos she managed to produce sumptuously beautiful, meticulously made costumes for almost every theatrical manager in London, including the great David Garrick himself. We managed to produce, for I had been working here for three months now, and Dottie often shook her head and stared dreamily into space and declared she had no idea how she had ever gotten along without me. Sitting a...t my worktable, I carefully stitched the silver and white satin floral patterns onto the creamy pink satin skirt, sighing when I thought about edging each single pattern in white seed pearls. Hours and hours and hours it would take, but it was attention to details like this that made Dottie’s creations so spectacular. Dottie employed four other seamstresses besides me, but they all worked in the loftlike room upstairs, adjacent to her private living quarters. They were all quite skillful, but Dottie couldn’t stand their incessant chatter.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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