the rest of coney plus a new school
Nov. 25th, 2011 01:39 am"Take off your shoes and roll up your pants!" Liam tells him.
"I have sand in my stockings," Julia comments. "I should have been a mermaid. Mermaids do not have to worry about sand in their stockings."
"Did you wear your shoes and stockings in the ocean?" James asks, not sure how else she would be sandy.
"I must not have brushed my feet off enough." She sits on the ground, unbuttons her shoes, and peels off her stockings, then stuffs the stockings down inside her shoes, brushes off her feet, and stands back up. "You were going to buy us ice cream," she says to Sean, grinning. "Or did you spend all your money riding the Whip?"
( I did not throw up, James says proudly. )
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quickie research: girls' shoes in 1919, the dalton school
"I have sand in my stockings," Julia comments. "I should have been a mermaid. Mermaids do not have to worry about sand in their stockings."
"Did you wear your shoes and stockings in the ocean?" James asks, not sure how else she would be sandy.
"I must not have brushed my feet off enough." She sits on the ground, unbuttons her shoes, and peels off her stockings, then stuffs the stockings down inside her shoes, brushes off her feet, and stands back up. "You were going to buy us ice cream," she says to Sean, grinning. "Or did you spend all your money riding the Whip?"
( I did not throw up, James says proudly. )
words: 1816
total words: 38,659
quickie research: girls' shoes in 1919, the dalton school