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Snowbird Unbearably heaven A love story appealing ... page 13 ... page 18 ... page 22 FREE! At all the BEST www.TheOldTimes.com Antiques P.O. Box 411 Shops and Sauk Centre, MN Shows! 56378 Section One Vol. 26 No. 2 • “Vintage, Collectible, & Antique Wonders” • February 2016 Playing Dress-Up for Keeps A Civil War ball gown Dress-Up Cont. on page 3 by Linda Simpkins Transported to the 21st century, Jane Austen—and, no doubt, Cranford author Elizabeth Gaskell, whose Miss Mattie opened a tea shop--certainly would approve. Hannah and Matti Mae, eldest sisters as close as Jane and Elizabeth Bennett, open a millinery shop and end up hosting The American colonial dress on the left has panniers attached to the bodice. The dress on the Matti models an 1890s evening gown, which calls for an elliptical hoop skirt customers from right, with a shorter bodice and a slimmer skirt, is creating a flat front and extended in back to help support a large bustle with around the based on drawings from the 17
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