This lovely lady is Vera McCloud.

I often wish the world in general put more effort into looking their best. Then again the world could say the same thing right back to me! At any rate, as much as I love the beautiful old dresses, I could not imagine how much work and preparation these women had to do to pull their look together.

Vera , for instance , is wearing  fur, feathers, velvet, gloves, and an excessively buttoned dress! But she looks perfectly sweet. As my aunt likes to say,  it’s the finished product that counts!

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