"What else did you buy for me?" I asked her calmly. "You said a dress too?"
"Yes dear." She dug into the bag and brought out a pretty paisley colored dress that had the round flat collar and short puffed sleeves and an attached tie belt at the waist. The dress would zipper close behind my back when I wore it, and I knew that I would indeed wear it. Pants of any kind with undershorts were just too uncomfortable to wear for ten hours a day of traveling. The white pumps would probably go with the dress too.
"Well," I began somewhat tentatively, "you bought them and it's too far to go back and return them so I guess I may as well try them, if you promise not to laugh at me, or ever tell anyone back home that I wore them."