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My Mother's Wedding Dress

Justine Picardie tells a sequence of stories that reveal the fabric of the past, and how a family has fashioned itself through the clothes that they have worn: from her mother's black wedding dress to her first party frock.

Themes
fashion
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 335 pages

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