Dress goods

Dress´ goods´

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; - most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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She gave the store clerk the list to fill and proceeded to look over some new dress goods that had just arrived.

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He gave up a budding career in the dress goods business in Chicago where he had been employed in the famous Marshall, Field & Company department store, Upon moving west, Ben's first job was as an advertising agent for a New Mexico company, and he then served as representative for a Chicago store.

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I wish you might know what I have deprived myself of--in the way of all temptation to spend money & keep up appearances I have submitted to be thought mean--I have bought nothing but what was a great necessity & am indebted to the kindness of my folks for a very great deal that otherwise would have been an expense." (78) The "temptations" of a wide variety of fabrics and dress goods that could not be obtained in frontier Minnesota frustrated Katherine, but to "be thought mean" or miserly hurt her even more.

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"This idea would work well with a display of wash dress goods," the writer added, "but it would also look well with black goods or others lines."(11)