Gladys Taber on gardening attire
- Subject: Gladys Taber on gardening attire
- From: t* c* g*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:43:52 -0800
"As February slides downhill towards spring, I begin to wish for new
clothes. I shouldn't be tempted. I should finish out my winter things. At
the farm, I can't scratch around in the dirt with creamy shell-pink frocks
tucked and pleated all over the front. I can't have dogs climbing over me
while I don a crisp sheer this-and-that. All summer the costume of slacks
and jersey shirts is varied only by the difference as to just where the
shirt has faded most or whether the slacks have green paint-spots on them or
red. I think a woman should always appear in immaculate cool linens,
organdies, muslins in summer--with soft picture hats and pastel slippers or
spectator sport shoes. That is, I think that in February. But in April I'll
be pulling down those old, old blue corduroys that even a lumberjack
wouldn't wear. I ordered them by mail, and time has aged them to my figure;
they bag just where I need them to, and they are strong as iron, but not too
hot. We've been through a good deal together, and when they finally fall to
pieces, I'll hang them back in the closet, after the manner of "empty
saddles in the old corral."
Gladys Taber, Harvest at Stillmeadow, 1938
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