If you have a dress tried on, and any pin catches in the underclothing, every pin means that it is a year before you will be married; hence dressmakers are especially careful to pin the dress in such a way that it will slip off easily.
Boston, Mass.
Superstition #402
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 402.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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