You may or may not give a hoot about clothes, but it's hard not to celebrate the values of monumental, nose-to-the-sewing-machine hard work that stand behind the flamboyance.
She also was selling tickets all morning at a steady pace, instructing buyers where to stand if they wanted machine-picked tickets or to choose their own numbers.
In those days, the Dow Jones news ticker--a stand alone, upright machine--spilled out reams of broad tape financial news comparable with what comes across computer consoles today.