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Chapter 19

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True, Anne could not help a(begin subscript) ^(end subscript)(begin superscript)little(end superscript) pang when she contrasted her plain black tam and shapeless, tight-sleeved, home-made grey cloth coat with Diana’s jaunty fur cap and smart little jacket. But she remembered in time that she had an imagination and could use it.

Then Diana’s cousins, the Murrays from Newbridge, came; they all crowded into the big pung pung sleigh, among straw and furry robes. Anne revelled in the drive to the hall, slipping along over satin-smooth roads with the snow crisping under the runners. There was a magnificent sunset and the snowy hills and deep blue water of the St. Lawrence gulf seemed


PHOTO ANNOTATION

a dark blue velvet coat on a form, double row of light buttons and rich textured fabric

"Diana's smart little jacket": Peacoats like this one (from 1882), fashioned after men's frock coats, were popular for women and children alike. The double row of incised buttons and rich fabric were particularly chic at the time.

Diana's "jaunty fur cap" may have been fashioned in a pillbox style or something tam-like that one would wear at a jaunty angle.
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Amelia Beard Hollenback, 1966