To-day you cannot find a girl with a shawl or a pair of clogs.
They used to be pictured as going to their work with shawls on their heads and clogs on their feet.
If they cannot wear shawls, why cannot they wear diamonds and pearls?
Giver her a flaxen cloth and a coarse shawl to wear.
Poor women, however, were assumed to wear shawls of domestic manufacture made of wool or cotton.
Men play a peculiar role in the novelistic acquisition of shawls: they not only pay for them, but frequently procure them as well.
Like the "flowers" that animate the shawls and the people - inventors, artisans, operatives - behind the machines, the dies are a source of individual character in and on the buttons.
Neither ascribing beauty to an article of clothing nor making the shawl an object with character and personality was new, but the context of these rhetorical strategies was.
