The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
“Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.”
“Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?”