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New Dress Redux!
By Cornelia Powell | September 10, 2009
The other day as I was sitting on my porch in the North Carolina mountains (I’m nestled between the Blue Ridge and the Smokies) enjoying a late afternoon thundershower, I had a memory flash! An image popped into my mind’s eye of a favorite new “back to school” dress I had as a little girl (worn with embarrassingly clunky, doctor-prescribed saddle oxfords — but that’s another story!)
Maybe what triggered the memory was the taste of scuppernongs or the cool breeze or seeing a yellow school bus earlier in the day when I was in town; nonetheless, I notice how often I associate certain memories with what I was wearing at the time.
In fact, a similar ”memory flash” had its way with me about this time last year, inspiring the month’s newsletter article that I then reprinted in this blog. I thought you’d enjoy revisiting ”New Dress” and to see if you can find yourself in the story! (Plus it will link you to a past issue of my online magazine, Weddings of Grace, that shares more “who we are/what we wear” kind of stories.)
Enjoy!
Topics: Costume, Remembrances, Women's Notes |