398. If you have hearts in a figure in a dress or in a shawl, you will be married before it is worn out.
New York.
399. If you have a new dress and there are roses in it, the person who owns the dress will be married before the dress is worn out.
Salem, Mass.
400. Pins in the front of a dress waist are a sign that the wearer will be an old maid.
New Hampshire.
401. If, in making a dress, the thread kinks badly, the person for whom it is made will either die or get married before the dress is worn out.
Alabama.
402. If you have a dress tried on, and any pin catches in the underclothing, every pin means that it is a year before you will be married; hence dressmakers are especially careful to pin the dress in such a way that it will slip off easily.