More than the curlers some of the women seemed constantly to have in their hair in preparation for some great event -- a ball, one would think -- that never came to pass; more than the way most women's faces not only were never made up during the day, but seemed scraped, bleached, and, with their plucked eyebrows, scarily masklike; more than all that it was those dresses that made women so unknowable and forbidding,
Plus que les bigoudis que plusieurs femmes semblaient porter constamment aux cheveux, pour préparer quelque grand évènement - un bal, on croyait - qui ne s’est pas passé, plus que la manière dont les femmes ne se maquillaient jamais le visage pendant la journée, mais il semblait frotté, blanchi, et, les sourcils épilés, effrayant comme une masque; plus que tout cela c’était ces robes qui rendaient les femmes tellement inconnaissables et intimidantes,