AtD translation: imputations of the unfashionable

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Richard. That was my guess as well, but I couldn't make sense of
the word "imputations" as used here.

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:55 AM Richard Ryan <richardonriver at outlook.com>
wrote:

> I’m guessing it means far enough removed (geographically; hence “uptown”)
> from the tasteless middle-class that the store in question won’t be sullied
> by their favor.  Kind of appalling how bad the writing is though.  Reminds
> me of while I’ll never finish AtD.
>
> Richard
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> *Subject:* AtD translation: imputations of the unfashionable
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> P 345.22-28  They went uptown to look for ball dresses. Katie knew a
> seamstress who worked in a sub-basement of the I. J. & K. Smokefoot
> department store and had a line on returned or just-out-of-fashion numbers
> which could be picked up for a song. Smokefoot’s was located along the
> Ladies’ Mile, far enough north to avoid imputations of the unfashionable,
> yet not so far from others of its kind as to present inconvenience to any
> female client determined to shop the day through.
>
> What does "imputations of the unfashionable" mean here?
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