Hopkins decided to send Gellhorn to the textile areas of the Carolinas and to New England. Before leaving Washington, she was given vouchers for trains and five dollars a day for food, hotels and local travel. Being broke, she had no money with which to buy clothes suitable for tramping around derelict towns. So she set off with what she had brought back with her from Europe, Parisian couturier dresses once worn by models, and a brown crocheted hat with a bright plume of pheasant feathers; she wore plenty of mascara, eye shadow and lipstick.
