Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 24 Princess’s Dress
  After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Purficott came to the restaurant to prepare for breakfast.

She was still at Windsor Castle at this time and had not returned to Brandlis Manor, so she was wearing Princess Anne's clothes.

This is a sapphire blue long dress with a soft texture and exquisite decoration. The expensive silk fabric also makes it very comfortable to wear. However, Purficott does not seem to be very satisfied with this dress.

Don't get me wrong, the clothes Her Royal Highness the Princess gave to Purfict were clean clothes that she had never worn before. Although Purfict didn't mind wearing clothes worn by others, she was dissatisfied with other issues.

"It looks like this dress suits you very well, little Purfict." Princess Anne looked at Purfict who was wearing her own clothes, frowned and thought for a moment before continuing: "When did I get this dress?" ...What you wear doesn’t look too big at all?”

Princess Anne's height is considered tall even among men. Although her figure is not plump, it can be said that it is a standard figure. Especially after being trained in the military career, it can be said that she is full of quite a lot of features. Rich mature female charm and a hint of wildness.

Although Purficott has begun to grow in stature, she is still just a teenage girl, obviously unable to compare with the mature Princess Anne.

Therefore, the fact that Purfict's clothes fit her perfectly can only mean that this dress is Princess Anne's old dress. It has been kept in her wardrobe and has not been worn before, so it can now be worn on Purfict's body.

Sitting down at the dining table, Purficott looked down at the clothes on his body, and then responded to Princess Anne: "If I remember correctly, this should be a popular style twenty years ago? Even if I haven't worn it, It has been stored for twenty years and it still looks like new. Should I say that the royal family takes good care of their clothes?"

Whether it was in this life or the world before traveling, Purficott's knowledge and knowledge told her that silk is a very difficult fabric to care for and maintain. After all, the main component of this thing is biological protein, not animal hair. Or plant fiber.

In this era when chemical fibers had not yet been invented, silk fabric was an out-and-out top-notch luxury product, especially for the Victoria Empire, which could only be imported from the mysterious East.

Even in the upper class of Langton, the aristocratic ladies are rarely willing to buy silk clothes for themselves because it is too expensive.

For them, a silk handkerchief or silk scarf is already a very handy accessory, while a silk scarf or shawl is already a top-notch luxury item that they will never wear on their body.

And their price is usually the entire annual income of a middle-class family in Langton.

Under normal circumstances, this amount of money is between two hundred and four hundred gold pounds, which is enough for a family of five to live a good life in Longton.

Even for nobles, this is a painful expense, and even some down-and-out nobles may not be able to afford this money at once.

But now, what Purficott is wearing is a set of long skirts made of silk, with luxurious materials and exquisite workmanship.

She didn't know how much the clothes were worth, but she only had to think about how much a two-story villa with a garden in the not-so-gentle neighborhood of Longton cost only a thousand pounds, and she could tell how much the clothes on her body were worth.

But this is just an old piece of clothing in the wardrobe of the princess of the empire that has not been worn in twenty years.

Such a comparison inevitably made her feel a little less beautiful, and her words were a little sarcastic when she spoke. "Of course, you should take a look at my mother's wardrobe. There are several pieces of clothing passed down from her grandmother. Those clothes are at least a hundred years old!" Princess Anne obviously did not recognize Perficott. The mocking tone in his words led him to shrug his shoulders, indicating that this was very common in the royal family.

This is not to say that the royal family is stingy. A piece of clothing has to be worn for hundreds of years.

In fact, these clothes can be stored for dozens or even hundreds of years, and the money spent on maintaining these clothes every year is already more than making ten new ones.

The reason for doing this is just a matter of customs of the royal family, or the Victoria Empire. They believe that the clothes passed down by the old man are a blessing, and they can share the old man's blessings.

Purficott was noncommittal about this custom. After all, there was nothing wrong with it.

In the past, when materials were scarce and productivity was not so developed, it was normal to keep the clothes of your elders and continue to wear them.

After all, even nobles in that era might only have a few decent pieces of clothing, and those who were poorer might have to wear the same piece of clothing for several generations.

The euphemistic name of passing on the blessings of the elders is just to make it sound nicer.

Of course, after the dramatic improvement in productivity in the Industrial Revolution, this has definitely become a traditional custom in the true sense, at least for the nobility.

After all, the princess can have a set of clothes that she hasn't worn twenty years ago and is maintained like new, which explains something.

So Perfectcott followed this topic and asked Princess Anne: "Aunt Anne, how much do you spend on clothes every year?"

"This? I haven't calculated it carefully, but the royal family has a clothing expense every year, which is used for maintenance and new clothes." Princess Anne put breakfast in her mouth, took a sip of milk and swallowed the food before saying : "Of this money, the expenditure on maintaining old clothes is about two thousand gold pounds. In addition, I also spend about one thousand gold pounds on purchasing new clothes and jewelry every year."

At this point, Princess Anne showed a helpless expression: "You know, little Purficott, although I have no interest in these additional clothes and jewelry, they still appear in my wardrobe every year. , because that is the face of the royal family.”

Before joining the army, Princess Anne might still have some interest in these clothes and jewelry, but as a soldier, she now wears more military uniforms, and the jewelry is her medal.

Even her hair was cut into a male-style short haircut, which proved that she was really not interested in these things.

But the royal family's procurement does not care about this. If the eldest princess of the empire who goes out in a dignified manner cannot even afford to wear a new dress every year, it will be a shame for the entire empire.

Just like France, who is across the sea from Victoya, their queen has to change into a new outfit every week.

(End of this chapter)