She made a note to do so.
They discussed ways and means.

Joan calculated she could get through on two hundred a year, putting aside fifty for dress.

Madge was doubtful if this would be sufficient.

Joan urged that she was "stock size" and would be able to pick up "models" at sales; but Madge, measuring her against herself, was sure she was too full.
"You will find yourself expensive to dress," she told her, "cheap things won't go well on you; and it would be madness, even from a business point of view, for you not to make the best of yourself." "Men stand more in awe of a well-dressed woman than they do even of a beautiful woman," Madge was of opinion.

"If you go into an office looking dowdy they'll beat you down.