Please help me
Help me. I can't understand this passage below. Please paraphrase or explain.(This is a part of THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST by O.henry
Gather the idea, girls--all black, you know, with the preference for
crepe de--oh, crepe de Chine-that's it. All black, and that sad,
faraway look, and the hair shining under the black veil (you have to
be a blonde, of course), and try to look as if, although your young
life had been blighted just as it was about to give a hop-skip-and-
a-jump over the threshold of life, a walk in the park might do you
good, and be sure to happen out the door at the right moment, and--
oh, it'll fetch 'em every time. But it's fierce, now, how cynical I
am, ain't it?--to talk about mourning costumes this way.