<h4>Chapter 229: Chapter 229</h4>
“Yes, it will be very helpful. The cold winter ising, but making clothes takes a long time. Mother said it would be better to send clothes that are ready to be worn than to send fabric.”
Well, if she really wanted to help the poor go through the cold winter, she had to buy thick coats, not dresses. But instead of pointing it out, Baroness Verier just smiled and agreed.
“Of course. The workhouse alwayscks clothes.”
“Will you choose dresses with me?”
The princess even let the baroness join in her shopping.
There wasn’t a single person in Seritos who didn’t know the king and the queen adored their youngest princess and granted her every wish.
Everyone envied Baroness Verier’s fortune and eagerly listened to their conversation.
“We have about thirty identical dresses of this.”
“Hmm, I must buy some more, but... it’s already time to meet Violet. What should I do?”
She could just decide on any dresses, but she didn’t want to do that at all. The dresses were going to be donated in her name, and she wanted to be praised for putting much care into it. But of course, she also couldn’t give up the ytime with her friend.
“Then, how abouting back tomorrow?”
One of thedies-in-waiting, who had been sent to keep an eye on the princess, offered, and she immediately nodded.
She wouldn’t have agreed to it if it hadn’t been enjoyable, but choosing ready-made dresses didn’t have the stress of imagining the finished dress with only a design sketch and fabric, so it was quite fun.
“Maybe I shoulde with mother tomorrow.”
She carelessly said so as she left, and of course, it utterly shocked everyone who heard it.
In less than a day, words about Baroness Varier’s fortune spread to the entire capital.
Soon people realized Presa had a great advantage over the designers they would call home.
They couldn’t go to tea meetings or balls without being invited to. However, everyone could go to Presa regardless of one’s rank and status, as long as they had enough money to buy clothes.
They could ‘fabricate’ coincidental encounters with honorable people they couldn’t even dare to speak to.
On the next day, the shop was crowded with customers. And more than half of them were men.
“My mother urgently needs a pair of gloves.”
“But didn’t you buy a pair from us this morning?”
“That’s... I thought my mother needed only a pair, but she actually needs one or two more.”
The princess was the noblestdy in the kingdom, and men who wanted to find such a bride and climb the socialdder were eager to run into her.
Thanks to that, the gloves became the product that gave them the biggest profit. And of course, Gabriel didn’t miss this hrious situation.
“nco, you should read this article.”
Snow suddenly burst intoughter while reading thetest edition of The Little Bird’s News and handed it to nco.
nco, who had been threading a needle with her thick hands, angrily replied.
“Can’t you see I’m busy?”
She had been trying it for more than half an hour now. It wasn’t easy to thread a needle with huge hands that were twice the size of human hands.
The needle had been bent in half, so she wasn’t going to seed anyway.
Snow almost told her she could use the threader she had bought, but then she quickly shut her mouth.
Talking about it to nco wasn’t going to be good. She knew she would think of her as a traitor for taking a machine made by ymore.
“How about giving it another tryter?”
“No, I must do this now. Look at this ribbon, it’s waiting for me to put it on my dress.”
nco was a huge fan of Madam Berry which the magazine had been writing about often.
As soon as she read the article on how to make a stomacher, she went down to a shop and bought the needed materials.
She could easily make ribbons, even with her huge hands. She was delighted to make pieces of beauty herself and praised Madam Berry for her ingeniousness.
She knew she couldn’t make and wear a dress, but she wanted to at least put a stomacher on her chest.
She thought her long dream was finallying true, but as always, her needle was not letting it happen.
“Hmm...”
While nco was focused on it, Snow stole a needle and thread from her, nning to use her threader while nco couldn’t see.
She did feel guilty because of her master Iber, but that machine was just too convenient that she had no choice but to admit the ymores were clever.
Snow already couldn’t live without the machine. Moreover, it had cost only what about five apples would take, so it wasn’t adding much money to ymore’s wallet.
“nco, I bought this from the town yesterday, and...”
“Stop distracting me!”
nco angrily looked up, but she got to smile as soon as she saw the magazine’s cover. It was her favorite The Little Bird’s News.
Snow preferred pamphlets of clothes shops to the magazine that had too many gossips, but she had a respect for her friend’s taste.
“This is thetest edition I haven’t read.”
“Yes, I just looked through it briefly, and it has news about Madam Berry.”
nco snatched it out of her hand before she could even finish saying that. Then, she started to read,pletely absorbed.
Snow couldn’t understand why she loved Madam Berry so much. Of course, her ribbons were good, Snow admitted it. However, her ribbon dress had been first worn by Duchess ymore.
nco was mad at her for using a convenient machine made by ymore, but she was so generous to Madam Berry. Snow med her for that.
‘Still, here I am, threading this needle for you. You should know how fortunate you are to have such a great friend.’
Snow left nco to read the magazine and went to the kitchen. She took out the machine she had hidden, and what nco had been struggling for half an hour was done in an instant. Snow thought she had been right to dismiss her guilt.
She wished Duke ymore would make a lot more things like this. Gods, may he work a lot and earn little.
“nco, look at what I’ve done.”
Snow went back in triumph, but then she was surprised to see nco had transformed into human form. Why had she done that so suddenly?
“Oh, um, I just seeded in threading your needle...”
“That’s not what matters now.”
It didn’t matter? But she had spent minutes struggling for it. However, she gravely ordered.
“You should transform too.”
“But why? Are you going to the fabric shop again? You already have enough fabric. We all know you have a room full of silk. Just stop buying. I don’t know what kind of silk that magazine introduced but use what you already have first and then think about it.”
“I’m not going to a fabric shop. I’m going to a clothes shop.”
“What clothes shop?”
Snow thought her friend had finally gone mad after struggling with a needle for so long. She yelled, “But what if you show them your real form while they measure your size? Then you’ll never be able to go to a human town again?”
“I don’t need to have my size measured! I just have to go and buy!”
nco put the passage that said there was a shop that sold ready-made clothes right in front of Snow’s eyes. Her eyes widened to read the unexpected.
“But we are...”
“Here, it says the shop sells really big clothes and customers of all sizes shoulde. Madam Berry says they should make clothes just for each customer. She said designers who talk of their belief and make small dresses in sizes of children are not real designers.”
Thest sentence sounded to be aimed at a particr designer nco had been a big fan of only a year ago.
But Snow didn’t bother to point that out since nco was always changing her mind. And for now, her whim didn’t matter. She immediately transformed into a human.
“We can talk on our way, let’s go!”
Snow’s heart beat fast with excitement to think she was about to get a proper dress for the first time.
Of course, she thought it was weird for Madam Berry to open a shop in a small rural town near Iber’s territory and sell huge clothes that no human could wear, but she decided not to think too much about that.
Although Snow was quite skeptical, she tended to fall to traps easily.