"Tony, my painting "Girl on the Beach 200 Years Later" was sold. How much do you think it was sold for?" Danina said to Tangning excitedly after she came back that day.
"How much?" Tangning asked curiously.
Danina stretched out her hand and gestured: "Five hundred dollars!"
"What?! Five hundred dollars, did I hear you correctly?" Tangning asked in disbelief.
Danina nodded and replied: "You heard it right, it's five hundred dollars, but Miss Vanderbilt who bought the painting has a requirement!"
"What's the request?" Tangning asked.
"She asked me to make her some swimsuits like those you drew!" Danina explained.
Tangning suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand. It turns out that people bought your paintings because of the swimsuits I painted, right?"
"That's right, otherwise I wouldn't have taken this painting to the gallery for consignment, but I didn't expect that Miss Vanderbilt would take notice of it as soon as I put it on display, and the price was $500. It's really rich!"
Na sighed.
Then he said: "By the way, Tony, do you have any other ideas for clothes like this?"
Tang Ning thought to herself, but at the same time, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred in her mind, and she suddenly realized that this was actually a way to generate income. She would first slowly accumulate customers and cultivate customer acceptance through oil painting, and then open a clothing store or even a clothing store.
Brands lead the trend, you must know that women’s money is the best to earn!
Moreover, this can also give Danina and even all her women something to do, which is conducive to the maintenance of relationships. This is much more effective than just using money. In addition, there is no need to worry about them becoming bigger and leaving themselves, after all, the creativity is all their own.
Here it is!
Thinking of this, Tangning nodded and replied, "There are many new ideas. I'll draw one for you later!"
Then I drew the simplest girl's outfit, T-shirt + low-waisted denim shorts + sneakers. Then I thought that sneakers couldn't be made at this time, so I changed it to Martin boots. I think now we all have high heels.
and riding boots, so it shouldn’t be difficult to find a shoemaker to make Martin boots, right?
But even though it was such a simple piece of clothing, Danina still seemed stunned. After a few seconds, she stuttered and asked Tangning, "Hey, when did you wear this?"
"It's just the clothes you usually wear when going out!" Tang Ning replied casually.
"But, this is too revealing!" Danina said with a frown.
"Is it more revealing than the swimsuit I drew before?" Tangning retorted.
Danina explained: "Swimsuits are for swimming after all, so it's understandable that they have less material and are more close-fitting. But if you wear them like this, don't you expose your arms, thighs and even waist?"
In fact, it's no wonder that Danina was so surprised, because although the dressing style of European women in the 19th century tried hard to highlight the fullness of women's breasts and voluptuous waists, it was still very conservative overall, except for the face,
Other skin must be covered in public places. In fact, it is not just Europe. Before the end of World War II, women in every country in the world were dressed very tightly. Of course, women with special jobs were excepted, but even those with special jobs
Work clothes are not as open as they are now.
"Why can't you show it? In fact, this is the same as showing off your jewelry. Since you have big breasts, perky butt, and long legs, why not show it off?" Tangning defended, and then asked from a different angle: "
Just tell me whether this kind of clothes looks good or not, and whether it’s anything new?"
This time Danina did not hesitate: "Although I don't dare to wear it, it does look good; not to mention the novelty, I have never heard of this kind of clothes, let alone seen them before!"
"Then my request is fulfilled. Go and paint quickly!" Tang Ning urged.
"Okay!" Danina nodded in agreement, then turned to Keira and said: "Keira, let's go, let's go find Aunt Jenny to make these clothes! Then you can be the model for me, okay?"
"Okay, but you still can't use my avatar!" Keira emphasized.
"Of course!" Danina promised repeatedly.
After Danina and Kayla left, Tangning felt that it was not interesting to stay alone in the house, so she also planned to go for a walk. When she passed by a shoe shine stall at the corner of the street, she sat down at it.
Tangning's usual habit of shining shoes was to read newspapers, but today he found that the black man who was shining shoes seemed to be avoiding his eyes, which aroused his curiosity. After taking a closer look, he couldn't help but exclaimed:
"Huh? Aren't you Ross from Uncle Frick's house?"
The reason why Tangning was so surprised was because Ross was supposed to be a black slave of the Frick family, and he was also a very hard-working black slave. However, Tangning didn't know how he came to New York to shine shoes.
Seeing that Tang Ning recognized him, Ross awkwardly replied, "I didn't expect you would still remember me, Mr. Tang Ning!"
"How could I not remember you? Uncle Frick even lent you to my family to work. I remember you were still the head of the black slaves at that time! Ross, why did you come to New York to shine shoes?" Tangning asked curiously
road.
Ross sighed and replied: "There was a war last year, Yankee, no, General Butler liberated us black slaves after he occupied New Orleans. I heard those soldiers say that New York is better than New Orleans.
It was much more, so I found an opportunity and followed the ship to New York!"
"Then do you think New York is better than New Orleans now?" Tangning asked with interest.
Ross scratched his head, and then replied: "Well, now that I think about it, Ejid was telling the truth. There is indeed freedom here in New York, and it is true that you will not be whipped, but the price of freedom is that it is easy to not have enough to eat.
Hey, at first we all thought that he was bribed by Mr. Tangning and you manor owners, so he was lying to us so that we would not follow those underground railways, but now we find that we wrongly blamed him!"
"If I ask you to go back now, will you go back?" Tangning asked again.
This time Ross shook his head without hesitation and replied: "I won't go back! Although we often don't have enough to eat in New York, and the white gentlemen and police still look down on us, at least we can live like human beings here!"
"At least live like a human being!" These words shocked Tangning greatly!
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