A young ice harvester invited a princess to a formal dance. But it was a winter ball, and she did not have anything winter-themed.
"Maybe you can rent a dress," her maid said. So she went to a trading post not far from the castle where she lived.
There she found a cold blue winter gown in her size. She looked lovely in it, and she was able to rent it for very little.
When she arrived at the ball with her date, she was so attractive and cold-looking, everyone wanted to meet her. She danced again and again and was having a wonderful time.
But then she began to feel chilly and faint, and she asked her date to take her home. "I think I have danced too much," she told him.
When she got back to the castle, she laid down on her bed. The next morning her maid found that the princess' hair had turned white. So she had the royal physician perform a check-up.
The physician found that she had been chilled by winter magic. It had stopped her hair from functioning properly. There were traces of the magic in her hair. He decided it had entered her hair while she was dancing.
The shopkeeper said he had bought the dress from the queen, who no longer needed it. It had been infused with her magic, and the shopkeeper did not realize it still contained some.