When you don't have specifics it is often wiser to leave it to the imagination of the reader -

Leonora left the old women to their preparations and ascended the ancient staircase of wood so old and so polished that it looked more like stone than anything that had ever grown. In the simple chamber assigned to her she found that her aunt had left all she needed to transform herself from city dweller to a young woman of simpler times. She struggled out of the fashionable gown in which the maid had helped her dress that morning, brushed her hair, washed her hands and face in the bowl which she knew had been given to her own grandmother on her wedding day and then dressed herself easily in the same style as the other women in the house. When she returned to the ground floor she met her aunt, who took her arm and guided her into the kitchen murmuring 'welcome back, my dear girl - now I can say that I know you.'

Anne the Pleater :ootd: