Dresses for the Dance
Dublin Core
Title
Dresses for the Dance
Subject
Margaret Newman remembers the workers in McKechnie's Cleaners, liberating some dresses in their care.
Description
Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator speaks of working in McKechnie's Cleaners, liberating some dresses in their care.
transcript
"So I came and I worked in McKechnies, you know the cleaners. They used to dye and clean and everything. And then I was there one week and there was a big ball in the City Hall. And we had two lassies, working in the cleaners, that were going to a dance and they had no dresses, they couldn't afford to buy em. So all the dresses came in to be cleaned after the ball in the City Hall and we picked out two dresses, and they went to their dance. The dresses were after being cleaned, they came up to be ironed you had to be very careful with them then, you know, and we outfitted the two of them and they went to the dance. So they brought them back in the next morning, and they went down to the cleaners again, and then they were brought back. But there was nothing happened them, they got a warning that they wouldn't dare leave anything happen those dresses, because all our jobs was at stake."
transcript
"So I came and I worked in McKechnies, you know the cleaners. They used to dye and clean and everything. And then I was there one week and there was a big ball in the City Hall. And we had two lassies, working in the cleaners, that were going to a dance and they had no dresses, they couldn't afford to buy em. So all the dresses came in to be cleaned after the ball in the City Hall and we picked out two dresses, and they went to their dance. The dresses were after being cleaned, they came up to be ironed you had to be very careful with them then, you know, and we outfitted the two of them and they went to the dance. So they brought them back in the next morning, and they went down to the cleaners again, and then they were brought back. But there was nothing happened them, they got a warning that they wouldn't dare leave anything happen those dresses, because all our jobs was at stake."
Creator
Cork Folklore Project
Source
CFP_SR00407_newman_2010
Publisher
Cork Folklore Project
Date
06 April 2016
Contributor
Margaret Newman (narrator)
Rights
Copyright Cork Folklore Project
Format
Mp3
Language
English
Type
Audio
Identifier
CFP_SR00407_newman_2010
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Dresses for the Dance,” Cork Memory Map, accessed May 19, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/cmm/items/show/10.