The Country Cousin — Betty Cavanna

Mindy Hubbard lacked purpose, and so her seventeenth year was a time of drift and anxiety. Unaccepted by any college, she had no substitute plan of action to fall back on. Betty Cavanna who has an intuitive understanding of teen-agers, writes of this turning point in a girl's life with wisdom and sympathy.

What offers a solution to Mindy is a summer job in a Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania dress shop owned by her older cousin, Alix Moore. Working as a sales clerk in The Country Cousin, Mindy is gradually introduced to the business, and a whole new vista opens up for her. Miss Cavanna, with her flair for putting research to dramatic effort, makes the reader share Mindy's enthusiasm as she observes the New York garment district in operation and later takes a business trip to the mecca of the fashion world, Paris.