1.   The wedding was more than a year away but she had already bought a dress for it.

2.   They reassured her that she looked beautiful, and she knew they had bought the dress for her.

3.   Where did you buy that dress?

4.   She enjoyed herself making the assistant bring almost everything in the window before finally buying the dress she had first asked for.

5.   And the picture is actually to show you how people bought their cloth, how people bought their dresses.

6.   At the former Pavilion of Optics, a cashier named Olga Zarugnaya was taking money from people buying dresses, instant coffee from India and canned pork from China.

7.   Before long, more people wanted to buy the dresses than the juice.

8.   Bought a dress?

9.   But not before I bought the dress.

10.   Dresses can be bought directly off the rack, and most stores offer free alterations.