Every piece of clothing tells a story. After meeting for years, supporting each other’s work, our writers’ group decided to try something new – a collaboration. We dug into our 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 ourselves, but for everyone who reads them.

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“A deep, often funny, always insightful collection of essays and poems by gifted women who endow the clothing in their closets with the power of memories that shaped them more than the garments they wore. Entertaining and profound, ALTERED grants the gift of epiphany to readers of every gender, reminding us ‘that grace goes deep. And never out of style.’”
Robert Eisele - poet and screenwriter of The Great Debaters, Last Light, and The Senior
“Everybody wears clothes... since time and millennia, human beings have clothed themselves in one way or another. But we easily forget their value and importance. These deeply touching and personal stories remind all of us how much a single solitary garment can mean in your life.”
Geoffrey B. Small, fashion designer
“ALTERED is the kind of collection that I will return to over and over, one that speaks to the deepest parts of who we are and who we want to be through the intimacy of our clothing. Our wardrobes can hide the secrets of our family and our life, sometimes even our desires. These essays aren’t just about closets, they are about hearts both broken and healed, about women’s lives and the multitudinous ways we either hide or expose ourselves with what we choose to wear, keep, or hide. These essays are about the things that matter—mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and adventures, about longing and loss, about history and everything in between. ALTERED is a deeply felt, insightful and profound collection. Each essay is a gem and this collection is, in a word, a delight.”
Patti Callahan Henry, NYT Bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea
“Who would have thought that memories of clothes we wore would evoke such richly told tales? These stories are fascinating.”
Adrienne Barbeau, actress and author of There Are Worse Things I Could Do and the Vampyres of Hollywood series