How would you interpret the last sentence?
Mrs. Brown noted that Wallace has been reading aloud from his diary in the hearings, as evidence of what was said in the uranium meetings now under scrutiny. “Good thing he kept that diary,” she says, standing in my doorway in a red-and-white-checked tailored shirt. With her, there’s no knowing, it could be the latest fashion or something she made from a tablecloth—or both. Mrs. Brown proves stylish gals can still be thrifty in ’fifty.
How would you interpret the last sentence?
I guess it means a woman can still be stylish when she is in her fifty, right?
Thanks. And this excerpt is taken from The Lacuna by Kingsolver.