Template:Did you know nominations/Kate Gleason
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The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 04:01, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
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Kate Gleason
- ... that Kate Gleason would wear her most feminine attire available as a strategy to sell bevel gears? Source: The Life and Letters of Kate Gleason, p. 46
"Before the trip, Kate had neglected her looks. One of her former teachers and even Susan B. Anthony had chided her about her appearance, and more than one person had told Kate that she smelled like horses, which she loved to ride.”! Now, she realized, after two months in one black cashmere dress, it was time for a change. “Shortly after the trip” Kate recalled, “I began to consider my clothes. Apparently, everybody else had been considering them for some time; but to me dress had seemed of little importance.” Now, she “went in for extremely feminine attire. I had my hair dressed and wore violets in my muff, and had some soft, frivolous gowns made. This attention to dress repaid me well. Some of my customers spoke to me twenty years after about a certain dress or hat that I wore when I made a sale. I learned to value clothes, to love clothes, and to use clothes."
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Improved to Good Article status by Rocfan275 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:56, 15 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Kate Gleason; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
