Donning- (verb)

 Definition: to put on (a piece of clothing)

 Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/don

 Found in: “Quicksand” By, Nella Larsen (P. 382)

 Passage: “Evidently, she had had little time or thought for the careful donning of the five-years-behind-the-mode garments which covered her, and which even in their youth could hardly have fitted or suited her.”

The word don basically means a piece of clothing that you’d change into. Helga used the word don expressing that she didn’t care much to put on those “five-years-behind-the-mode” garments that barely fitted her.

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