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Arlington, Va. 2 Oct 1947. Dear Doris: After 3 frosty nights mellow Indian summer weather has come again. I went down with Dad to the Museum with my paraphernalia this morning and saw everyone again, but didn't stay long. I went shopping and after ransacking all the shops from Kanns, Hechts, Lanburghs, in your style, I finally bought a dark brown rayon crepe at Lansburghs. It is nice fitting [[sketch]] with a sort of pleated side wise peplum in front and little [[sketch]] on the shoulder and a heavy chain of some sort from that (I can remove these gew gaws if I wish later). Anyhow it will be a change from the dark blue I have worn so many years, and not so radical in any way but what I can wear it for an equal number of years if necessary. I tried on fall and winter coats with an eye for a light weight coat, but they were all awful things with great heavily padded shoulders that stuck out like boards. I hated them, and shall forgo all such until the fashions change. Last evening Fanny Greenwald's boy came out with his Aunt Celia and spent the evening. Fanny was a little Polish