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She abruptly took off her dress and, standing in her chemise, reached under it and unfastened her corset, dropping it to the floor. Opening the package and shaking out the filmy fabric, she began to drape it from her shoulders, checking the fall of the cloth in the mirror. Then she laid out the fabric on the bed. The next evening, Tom, dressed in a smart new blazer, was seated with Alice and Hubert. Keziah entered in a corsetless, eggshell colored dress modeled after the French designer Paul Poiret. It fell in one unbroken line, skimming her hips loosely and ending just above the ankles. Alice paled. “You’re going out? In…in those… undergarments?”

Lynn Blackwell Denton, The Milliner (Philadelphia, Lynn Blackwell Denton, 2016), 28. Submitted by Lynn Blackwell Denton

Eisler, Benita. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company. p. 154-154.

Kindness Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Rilke's book of hours: Love poems to God. Penguin, 2005.

"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth." -Jesse Jackson.

Colonna, Francesco. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Translated by Joscelyn Goodwin. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc, 1999.

…moon-beamsthe sight of the cover of a book one has previously read retains, woven into the letters of its title, the moon-beams of a far-off summer night

Marcel Proust, “The Past Recaptured,” trans. Frederick A. Blossom, in Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 (New York: Random House, 1932), p. 1008

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…lace gazedUndine’s white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue—and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be!

Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (New York, NY: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1913) p. 18

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…soul or bodyThinking thought to be a body wearing language as clothing or language of a body of thought which is a soul or body the clothing of a soul, she is veiled in silence. A veiled unavailable body makes an available space.

Harryette Mullen, Trimmings (Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 1991)

Submitted by Vanessa Baish

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Pamela Hart, “On the Orange Jumpsuit.” Southern Humanities Review 49 no. 4 (Summer 2016) p. 89

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Yourcenar, M. (1986). Oriental tales. Macmillan.

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Marguerite Yourcenar. Oriental Tales (New York: Macmillan, 1986)

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…some skin or other“Winter came. Cosimo made himself a fur jacket. He sewed it from the fur of various animals he had hunted: hares, foxes, martens and ferrets. On his head he still wore that cap of wild cat’s fur. He also made himself some goatskin breeches with leather knees. As for shoes, he eventually realized that the best footgear for the trees was slippers, and he made himself a pair of some skin or other—perhaps badger.”

Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. The Baron in the Trees (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Inc., 1957) p. 70

Submitted by Melissa Sandor

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…trembling edgeHere is a poem about a hedge. I will wander down it and pick flowers, green cowbind and the moonlight coloured may, wild roses and ivy serpentine. I will clasp them in my hands and lay them on the desk's shiny surface. I will sit by the river's trembling edge and look at the water-lilies, broad and bright, which lit the oak that overhung the hedge with moonlight beams of their own watery light. I will pick flowers; I will bind flowers in one garland and clasp them and present them-Oh! to whom? There is some check in the flow of my being; a deep stream presses on some obstacle; it jerks; it tugs; some knot in the centre resists

Virginia Woolf, The Waves. “I. Title.” (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1978) p. 56

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Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stalybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2000) p. 271.

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Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stalybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2000) p. 269.

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Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stalybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2000) p. 111.

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Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stalybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2000) p. 105.

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