After delivering the letters, Jiang Han made a trip to the dress shop to pick up evening gowns for her two younger sisters and Miss Liang Cuoyu.
In theory, a witch could make her debut in social circles once she was over twelve.
But domestically, that age limit was generally pushed back to around fourteen or fifteen, two years older than abroad. As middle-class witches—or rather, petit-bourgeois witches—they needed to prepare a complete set of evening gowns, though jewelry did not need to be included.
The expense would be deducted from the family fund. Of course, if family relations were good, they would also receive gifts from their own older or younger sisters.
Most of them were gifts from peers.
Gifts from elders were generally not given until the age of seventeen, and were usually expensive jewelry. Jiang Han herself had a necklace from her two mothers, though she did not wear it often.
The dress shop was located on Doll Street, and its owner happened to be Miss Qi Mei, who had previously made casual dresses for Jiang Han.
Wearing a wide-brimmed lady's hat, a sea-blue short robe, snowy-white shorts, and short boots, she stood behind the dress shop counter and greeted Jiang Han as warmly as ever:
"Good afternoon. You've come to pick up clothes for your sisters?"
Her lips curled upward, her eyes and brows carrying a heartfelt smile as she pulled open the door and invited Jiang Han inside.
From living in a carriage to owning a fixed storefront. The speed at which witches upgraded themselves was always astonishing. Just a few months ago, this lady had still been a dollmaker sitting in a carriage; now she had officially opened a shop, and business was quite good... Jiang Han returned her with a sweet, sunlit smile