Clothes Lines: from 75 western North Carolina women writers

by Mary Alice Ramsey (Illustrator), Celia Miles (Editor), Nancy Dillingham (Editor)

Seventy-five women of all ages and life-styles tell about the clothes experience, from top to bottom and in between. Their stories, poems, essays, and memoirs run the gamut from women's fascination with shoes and the color red to the history of bras, from WWII gas masks to girdles, from communion dresses to wedding dresses, from prom dresses to muu muus, from jump suits and pants suits to bathing suits and too-tight jeans, from housedresses to uniforms, from flour sacks to polyester, from granny panties and step-ins to thongs, from kerchiefs to scarves to shawls, from cloaks to mink stoles, from chartreuse to gold lame, from lace to silk ttulle and crepe de Chine.
Touching, humorous, poignant with memories, blushing or toasting, these writers reveal women's attachment to clothes, their clothes to significant moments in their lives.

235 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 3, 2016