Don people stare?
Oh my yes. Some quite rudely. I am learning the delights of a large bonnet, and when the stare is too intrusive, I “give them the bonnet” by turning my head and blocking them from my view. I can easily advocate for the bonnet as a privacy protection device. Assumption: Since you wear Plain dress, you must be a great cook, a prodigious baker, be a stay-at-home wife, sew your own clothes, knit, crochet and quilt. It is only coincidental that I love to bake and love to quilt, all pre-plain accomplishments. My cooking is adequate, but only with a recipe; I can sew but don’t because I can’t bear to waste the fabric with my inadequate concoctions; I cannot knit or crochet. I have been a stay-at-home wife at times in our marriage, and I consider the housework an important part of my responsibilities, but I currently work outside the home part-time as a secretary. When I first went plain, I was working as a computer programmer. When people would ask what I did and I would tell them, the shock
