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She chose a girl whose demure prettiness and quiet charm would enhance the possibilities of the skirt 's practicability in the eye of the shrewd buyer . Gertrude , the model , developed a real interest in the success of the petticoat . Emma knew enough about the psychology of crowds to realize how this increased her chances for success . The much heralded fashion show was to open at one o'clock on the afternoon of March fifteenth . At ten o'clock that morning , there breezed in from Chicago a tall , slim , alert young man , who made straight for the offices of the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company , walked into the junior partner 's private office , and took that astonished lady in his two strong arms . `` Jock McChesney ! '' gasped his rumpled mother , emerging from the hug .