It’s the story of a family living in a town just after the Civil War. In one chapter, the news comes that Lincoln has died and all the women in the town tear up their black dresses and drape the fabric over the house fronts. In another chapter, the mother buys fabric to make the girls dresses. The fabric is hated by the girls, a mustard and brown check, so they get matches and burn holes in the dark checks. The youngest daughter gets deathly ill. They had to shave her head she’s so sick. When her hair grows back, it comes in curly. She is sent to the country for the summer to recover and she comes back pink-cheeked and healthy.
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New format, same book stumper solving.
This book is from the 1920’s to early 1930’s.
If the children cut up their mother’s black dress to drape on the house, the book is Pinafores and Pantalets, from 1931.
Thank you! Do you know the name of the author?
Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis