The Duchess Hunt
“Upstairs, two maids joined Esme, Sarah, and Amy in Esme’s dressing room.
Everything Sarah would wear was new, from her stockings and shoes to the pins in her hair and her cosmetics.
Standing in her new chemise, she gazed at all of it – the results of the day they’d spent at the modiste’s. The pile of hairpins and shiny ribbons. The lovely pearly silk cap that would be pinned onto her hair. The pink silk slippers, glittering in the lamplight. The crisp short stays and petticoat.
And the dress. I...t was a gauze robe dress of primrose over a pearl silk slip, with Chinese buttons down the front. It was so elegant. Finer by leaps and bounds than anything Sarah had ever worn before.
She stroked a finger over the sleek, expensive, beautiful fabric.
“I am so pleased,” Esme exclaimed. “Madame Buillard does lovely work. Do you know she designed my court dress last year?”
“I’m not surprised.” Sarah looked over at Esme’s dress, a white satin with a light pink slip overdress trimmed in black velvet and with black velvet sleeves.MoreLess
Everything Sarah would wear was new, from her stockings and shoes to the pins in her hair and her cosmetics.
Standing in her new chemise, she gazed at all of it – the results of the day they’d spent at the modiste’s. The pile of hairpins and shiny ribbons. The lovely pearly silk cap that would be pinned onto her hair. The pink silk slippers, glittering in the lamplight. The crisp short stays and petticoat.
And the dress. I...t was a gauze robe dress of primrose over a pearl silk slip, with Chinese buttons down the front. It was so elegant. Finer by leaps and bounds than anything Sarah had ever worn before.
She stroked a finger over the sleek, expensive, beautiful fabric.
“I am so pleased,” Esme exclaimed. “Madame Buillard does lovely work. Do you know she designed my court dress last year?”
“I’m not surprised.” Sarah looked over at Esme’s dress, a white satin with a light pink slip overdress trimmed in black velvet and with black velvet sleeves.MoreLess
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