Do you know that no dressmaker's "hand" will allow a black pin to be put into a frock lest this bring bad luck, and result in the gown being brought back for alteration This work-room superstition has spread to the amateur, for when I helped Joan to fit on her new farthingale frock this week she shrieked aloud at the sight of a black pin in my hand, just as if had been about to stick it into her instead of into the brocade. She didn't want to have to alter it, she pleaded.
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