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large Confederate uniform (cavalry preferred, but any will do); men’s clothing (turn of the century including straw hats and white flannels); men’s stiff collars and neckband shirts; men’s evening clothes.
More in the women’s department: wigs (especially white, and one determinedly red, of real hair if possible); discarded brocade or lace curtains for dismemberment; pieces of furs and boas for similar treatment; plumes (big or small); fans (to be returned, of course), and shoes and boots.
Finally, two exotic loans are desired: a hurdy-gurdy of any discription, and an elderly bicycle, one so elderly as to have one large wheel and one small—the type called in England, quite graphically, a “penny-farthing” bicycle. Also a simpler item, several tricorn hats, ends this list.
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