She was overjoyed when she began her apprenticeship at the most renowned tailor shop in the city. Miss TagliaFerro was a seamstress known worldwide, and her custom-made dresses had been worn by some of the most famous women in the world. What she didn’t know, however, was the extremely harsh regime of discipline that Miss TagliaFerro imposed on all her apprentices, a regime filled with punishments and humiliations. It was not uncommon for one of her apprentices to find herself kneeling in a corner as a consequence for a crooked stitch or a slight delay in responding to an order.