Amishwoman

Amishwomen who sell quilts on consignment through non-Amish outlets will not deal with retail shops that are open on Sundays. They worry that customers might purchase one of their items on the Lord’s Day and thus implicate them in its desecration.

Old Order Amishwomen wear plain-cut dresses fitted loosely at the waist and sometimes fashioned with a capelike appendage over the bodice.

Gloria stared at the white cotton nightgown, similar to the ones she’d often worn, and the length of Leona’s hair, which, like all Old Order Amishwomen’s, had never been cut, only trimmed.