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Franklin's Advice on Fashion and Frugality

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 4.

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Franklin's Advice on Fashion and Frugality

FASHIONABLE ladies may take a hint from Benjamin Franklin's suggestion to his daughter when she wrote to him at Paris to send her the lace and feathers that were then in vogue: “If you wear your cambric ruffles as I do, and take care not to mend the holes, they will come in time to be lace; and feathers, my dear girl, may be had in America from every cock’s tail.”