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AS "legal representative" / I read a missive not my own, / On new designs the senders give / For clothes, in tints as shown.
Here figure blouses, gowns for tea, / And presentation-trains of state, / Charming ball-dresses, millinery, / Warranted up to date.
And this gay-pictured, spring-time shout / Of Fashion, hails what lady proud? / Her who before last year was out / Was costumed in a shroud.