Altered: Stories We Found In Our Closets

by Tinker Lindsay, Monique De Varennes, Kathryn Hagen

Every piece of clothing tells a story. After meeting for years, supporting each other's work, these colleagues decided to try something new—a collaboration. They dug into their closets and discovered that personal essays about clothes—on everything from fringe jackets and fishing vests to bridal tulle and Beatles T-shirts—have the power to evoke memories, not just for themselves, but for everyone that reads them.

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 19, 2024

Reviews

[Millie Halpern · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great collection of individual stories. The authors wrote about how items of clothing characterized and affected their childhood or teenage years - their relationships with their parents and siblings, their classmates and teachers, and their view of themselves. Each story drew me into another person's life. Most of all, reading these stories made me realize how clothing and the interactions that involve clothing affected my own childhood, my perception of myself and of my future in a way I had not realized until I read this book. For example, I remember that when my mother and I came home from shopping for new school clothes for elementary school each fall, my father would say how nice I looked and then say, "You look just like a college student."