Anna was standing in her room at the top of the Bartholomews' London house. She had finally remembered to stitch up the hem of her skirt which had been hanging down and she was wearing new lisle stockings - not black ones from Woolworth's but the more expensive beige kind from Marks and Spencer's. Her sweater, which she had knitted herself, almost matched her skirt, and her pretty shoes, inherited from one of the Bartholomews' daughters, were newly polished.
Judith Kerr: Bombs on Aunt Dainty