Avoidance

VIVIAN

I spent more time every day studying, and spent more time with friends from class, and accepted more orders for dresses. Anything to keep myself busy, to keep myself from thinking about the collar.

Since I was resolutely not thinking about the collar, or anything related to it, I was thinking more about the clothes I was making and the customers who needed them. Was there anything they needed but didn't know to ask? Most of my customers were young women who needed something that looked fancy for holidays and other celebrations, but many of them, and that number was slowly increasing, were married, pregnant, or after childbirth. Was there anything I could offer them that would be difficult to find elsewhere?