“ When Mashah walked in the street in her everyday work dress that was cut from the same goods and bought from the same pushcart like the rest of us it looked different on her.Her clothes were always so new and fresh, without the least little wrinkle”.(21)

The cloths we wear can often say a lot about our character and our outer image were fashion is concern. How one shop can also tell us about their wealth and social standing, the more money we have the more updated high end designer brand name we  can wear. Most women only wear brand names while others look for bargain and discounted fashionable designer brand name cloths. Because even though they can not afford to pay retail they still want to be in the latest fashion and wear what is in style,  some shop at good will and thrift shops for donated used fashionable designer cloths. When you have to live on a budget it is hard to be updated on the latest fashion trended.

But even though Masha lived in poverty in an immigrant poor neighborhood, she shops with her sisters at the pushcart peddlers and not the department stores. While her dresses are made from the same bolt of cloth  bought from the pushcart peddlers as her sisters there is a difference between her and her sisters on their fashion presentation and personal style. Her dress are always pressed neat with no wrinkles and fits her body perfectly to enhance her young figure which makes head turns as she walk by. This ling shows  a historical painting at the Brooklyn Museum of Hester Street 1900 by George Benjamin Luks : AMERICAN ART
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The City and the Rise of the Modern Woman, 1900–1945

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Work Cited

Yezierska, Anzia : Bread Givers, Persea Book New York 1970

Brooklyn Museum, New York: George Benjamin Luks, American Art
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The City and the Rise of the Modern Woman, 1900–1945

OldNYC :https://www.oldnyc.org/

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