| 'PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THE HANGERS'
Sometimes the volunteers will save an old wooden hanger for me as they are too ungainly for the space in the Free store. They are so sculptural...see Dunlop, the Gentleman's Gentleman in the Gallery of Domestic Refusals ...and it is a real thrill when an old thimble or some other seamstress's tool appears as they bring back memories of my grandmother and of the endless recycling of clothing from one generation and one sister to another.
My sister's fingers dance through these woven remnants of history, reading there the sheet music of the generation before us, writing witty and graceful stories into her daughter's future.
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