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It\u2019s June \u2013 time again for June Week at Emerson College! Nancy Drew and her chums Bess and George have been invited to Emerson by their \u201cspecial friends\u201d Ned, Burt and Dave. After a motel mix-up, the girls end up at \u201cUncle John\u201d Rorick\u2019s Pine Hill mansion for the week. And what a week it is, with a river pageant, fraternity parties and dancing. <\/p>\n
In other words, plenty of wardrobe changes.<\/p>\n
Nancy Drew\u2019s wardrobe is as legendary as she is. She wears dresses, yes. But what kind of dresses? As a young reader, I learned fabulous new words like sheath, frock and shift.<\/p>\n
Nancy attends two big dances, and her clothing choices do not disappoint. First, Nancy wears “a yellow linen formal, embroidered in white with birds and flowers. It was a one-piece dress with a slightly full skirt.\u201d And for the Omega dinner dance, Nancy chose \u201ca pale-green two-piece with a slightly full skirt. It was quite plain except for an intriguing geometric design in brilliant colors embroidered on one side of the sleeveless blouse. The trimming reached from the shoulders to the waistline.\u201d<\/p>\n
When clothing choices go right in Nancy\u2019s world, the results are spectacular. But in The Phantom of Pine Hill<\/em>, the wardrobe mishaps are much more memorable \u2013 not only for the sheer number of them, but also because they uncharacteristically happen to the boys. <\/p>\n We\u2019ll skip right over the first party where pink lemonade is spilled on Nancy and she goes back to Pine Hill to change from a white dress to a flowered print. No, that incident is tame in comparison to the wardrobe mishaps that follow. <\/p>\n Wardrobe Mishap #1<\/strong> She tried hard to keep from smiling as she looked at Ned. Mr. Rorick certainly went in for vivid sports clothes! She knew that Ned would be the victim of a lot of teasing when he reached the fraternity house, so she refrained from any of her own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wardrobe Mishap #2<\/strong> He and his friends were a sorry-looking sight. They were hot, dirty, and tired. Dust and mud had spattered on their grease-painted bodies and those who had not removed their wigs were now wearing them askew. Nancy found it hard to keep from laughing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Once again, Nancy and Ned walk to Pine Hill, and the housekeeper suggests that Ned change.<\/p>\n He laughed. \u201cIf I keep this up, poor Uncle John won\u2019t have any clothes left!\u201d<\/p>\n He went upstairs, took a shower, and a little while later appeared in clothes which Uncle John evidently wore when he was working in the garden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wardrobe Mishap #3<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s Dave’s turn for a wardrobe mishap \u2013 finally justifying his presence in the story, as he falls headfirst into a chimney.<\/p>\n \nWhat a sight he was\u2014completely blackened with soot! But Dave seemed unhurt as he perched on the edge of the chimney.<\/p>\n \u201cYou sure you\u2019re all right?\u201d Bess asked solicitously.<\/p>\n \u201cSure,\u201d said Dave. \u201cBut give me first prize for being the stupidest guy in Emerson!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Inside, Bess asks if she can put Dave\u2019s sooty clothes through the washing machine and the dryer. Now, in most worlds, there wouldn\u2019t be much more to say. But this is Nancy Drew\u2019s world, where housekeepers take their jobs very seriously.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, indeed,\u201d said Mrs. Holman. \u201cI\u2019ll go down to the basement with you and show you how they work. Afterward, I\u2019ll press the suit for you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I now want a fabulous yellow frock for June Week. And a housekeeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s June \u2013 time again for June Week at Emerson College! Nancy Drew and her chums Bess and George have been invited to Emerson by their \u201cspecial friends\u201d Ned, Burt and Dave. After a motel mix-up, the girls end up … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,38],"tags":[24,27],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nancy-drewsday","category-writing","tag-nancy-drew","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNancy, in \u201csimple but attractive sports clothes,\u201d goes for a canoe ride with Ned and they capsize (there\u2019s that word again!<\/a>) So they walk to Pine Hill and Nancy looks on amused as Mrs. Holman, the housekeeper, finds clothes for Ned. <\/p>\n
\nAfter the pageant, Ned and his friends, dressed as Indians, spirit Nancy off to dig for treasure\u2014on a hot June day. <\/p>\n