" The Shambaughs came, bringing Letty. She simpered up to me. Her eyes summed up the lace tippets on my Princess dress and the wide taffeta sash that was cutting me in half.

"Well, Blossom, just look at you!" she said in her mother's own grown-up voice. "I have always said a good dress will cover up any flaw."

"Then you had better get one like it," I replied. "

― Richard Peck , Ghosts I Have Been (Blossom Culp, #2)