I should think you'd be grateful to get most anything after those skimpy wincey things you've been wearing." "Oh, I AM grateful," protested Anne.

"But I'd be ever so much gratefuller if--if you'd made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
Puffed sleeves are so fashionable now.

It would give me such a thrill, Marilla, just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves." "Well, you'll have to do without your thrill.

I hadn't any material to waste on puffed sleeves.

I think they are ridiculous-looking things anyhow.