6.06.2007

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dresses sewn and worn by my mother and her sisters... and now in my possession!

3 comments:

B said...

Beautiful! I wish I knew how to sew dresses. Your mother has MAD skills.. fiddleheads... dressmaking..

Anonymous said...

will you share??????

Awed Job said...

fabric. threads. clothes.

They all have such loaded meanings beyond the simple, straightforward ones. Women more than men share and trade things to be worn.

I think of quilts passed down through generations. I think of hats lighting atop many other's heads.

At once intimate and impersonal.