At 01:44 PM 5/8/04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which reminds me that I set out to read and review all the library's Gene
Stratton-Porter books, and got distracted. I read _Girl of the Limberlost_
long ago, so I don't recall any reference to guimpe.
My old dictionary, however, defines it as [F, cf. Wimple] a kind of
chemisette, usually with sleeves, worn with a low-necked dress.
Sounds like the precursor of the white blouses that were an essential part
of a girls wardrobe in the forties and fifties. Guimps appear to have been
underwear -- but shirts were underwear in that era.
Was this the book in which the girl went off to school in a gathered skirt
when the fashion was pleated? And then later on her mother bleached her
face and did other desperate things to maker herself look sheltered and
idle, so that she wouldn't embarrass the girl before the high-toned people
she had met?
--
Joy
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