That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 28, 2023

Those hat boxes are actually filled with sand – that’s how she developed such big arms.

By the end of windy days, Maria empty hat boxes were always full.

Mary knew to do her Christmas shopping early – The other early shoppers were just heading in and she was already done.

Steve, would it be possible to get GoComics to print these a little bigger?

/// When the forceful Parisian wind blows,

Colette catches each hat when it goes.

Places each in a box

(which she’s weighed down with rocks)

to be sold as Collette’s Used Chapeaux.

My original post in 2016:

People learned why she was called the “Black Widow” when they found out what was in those hat boxes.

Don’t let the wind push you around, always carry your own designer weights

Nuthin is as racy as a lacy thing from Macy’s in the mor-ornin’…

Origin of “ The Puffy Shirt”.

Ringo Starr’s mum?

The male chauvinists at the music store wouldn’t sell Viola Smith drums, so she had to practice on hatboxes.

Completely covered on this most gray day, But even when sunny or windy or shady, There was just no other way, You always had to pay, To see Lydia the Tattooed Lady.

They subject is hotly debated/

As to whether her outfit is dated:/

You may notice a lump/

In her corset- a pump/

For keeping her sleeves inflated…

A snare, a tom, cymbals, and a top hat with a free cowbell in her purse.

She upgraded from a bag lady to hat boxes!

Madame la Guillotine, aka Dan, liked to carry her treasures around in hat boxes. She was careful that the strong Paris winds didn’t blow the lids off, thus avoiding a tête-à-tête with the Sûreté.

I wonder if ladies had trouble navigation doorways when huge shoulder blooms (someone will tell me what they’re really called) were in fashion.?

Cue The Association ♫ “Who’s tripping down the streets of the city Smilin’ at everybody she sees Who’s reachin’ out to capture a moment Everyone knows it’s Windy”♫

The wind is atrocious. When she left home her sleeves were tightly-fitted to her arms.

Like the gods, the winds are unjust:/

Her arms grow with every gust/

But to her regret/

not a single gust yet/

Has ever inflated her bust..

Once out on the street, Charlotte quickly had a wide selection from which she chose two new gifts for her husband.

On a windy day, it’s a good idea to carry spare hats with you.

Milliner on the Pont des Arts: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Steps in Paris" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Modiste, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1588 (November 25, 2016) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 11 works by him have been used here (17 times total, including this repeat and 5 prior ones), the November 25, 2016, strip being its first use. The February 7, 2019, strip has the prior non-repeat by him.

She was bound for the Gare du Nord/

With more hats for her growing hoard../

Twas her regular route/

But she hit the commute

And was painfully trampled and gored..///

She’s lucky to be alive/

For Paris is a teeming hive/

And she’s far too petite/

To be out on the street/

In the hours around nine and five..

smart MaryAnn, loaded her hat boxes with lead weights to keep from being blown away.

She thought of it first during dinner

and felt sure her invention’s a winner.

“Let the wind blow,

to the patent bureau

I must rush with my new Salad Spinner!”

She’s a popular object of lust/

She will show you much more if she must /

But ‘twill cost you a portion/

Of your family fortune/

So I’m hoping it’s held in trust..

Ah … hat boxes.

…

A time before T-shirts were sold outside a concert venue.

A day where everybody was taking the phrase “keep it under your hat” seriously.

/// If, in real life, this lady you’d meet,

(tiny waist, tiny hands, tiny feet),

who exhibits a passion

for in-your-face fashion,

you’d think, “Barbie’s ALIVE!” and retreat.

Marshmallow sale in Lilliput