In one shop a specialist on linings received $12. Women cutters, found in two shops, and doing supervisory work similar to that done by drapers, earned from $15 to $25. Hemstitchers earn $10 to $14 and a guimpe maker in one shop earned $12. Errand girls were found at $3 and $6; stock girls at $8, $12, and $13; and shoppers at from $3.50 to $10. Beginners in alteration departments are started at from $5 to $7. Regular alteration hands earn from $7 to $18, the average being $9 or $10. Fitters earn about the same as drapers in dressmaking shops, averaging from $15 to $18, with a range of from $10 to $25. As a rule comparatively little time is lost through irregularity of employment.
"Wage Earning and Education"
R. R. Lutz
The sweeping black folds were as imposing as imperial purple, and the starched guimpe framed a beauty that was grave, stern, almost severe until she smiled, and then you caught your breath, because you had seen what great poets write of, and great painters try to render, and only great musicians by their impalpable, mysterious tone-art can come nearest to conveying-the earthly beauty that has been purged of all grosser particles of dross in the white fires of the Divine Love.
"The Dop Doctor"
Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
But this face-severely framed in a starched white guimpe and floating black veil-belonged to my Past in several ways."
"The Dop Doctor"
Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
