show at the temple or at a hotel. A very classy operation. Our selec- tion of clothes was beautiful. We became very popular and people came from all over to shop with us.
be fashionable. It was a knockout of a design. We sold 42 of that one design for, as I remember it, maybe sixty or sixty-five dollars each. A funny,
afford to give up my job, as yet. One of Pearl’s girlfriends loved a Ceil Chapman cocktail dress and wanted to buy it. All she needed was her mother’s permission. She didn’t live far away so Pearl went with her to see her mother. As they went up her stairs she tripped and scraped her knee, which got blood on the dress. Her mother, a practi- cal woman, said the dress was very nice but she couldn’t possibly buy it because it was bloody. We told the manufacturer in New York that they shipped us the dress the way it was. He knew better but he must have taken pity on us because he gave us a new dress. We began selling dresses out of our house and our selections became very popular. We set up a dressing room in one of the bedrooms. Our brother, Marvin, would play the piano in the background. Once in a while we would put on a fashion
We began selling dresses out of our house and our selections became very popular. We set up a dressing room in one of the bedrooms.
Of course we gave them a decent discount as well. I remember one particular dress with a Navy blue and white striped tee top that fit close to the body and a silk Navy blue box-pleated skirt. It also came with a white silk pleat- ed skirt and a fitted black and white striped tee shirt. Everyone fell in love with that dress. To this day it would
embarrassing moment occurred when a number of women who bought that popular dress all wore it to the same luncheon. We sold many Ceil Chapman cocktail clothes; they were very glamorous. We also sold a great many of the brilliant designs of Clair McCardell. McCardell used wooden toggle buttons that were usually used only on coats on 71
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