Dress A Day, Day 35: Making Faces

Wednesday, June 9

I bought this dress at Goodwill in Santa Barbara when I came from Israel for my brother's graduation, circa 2001. That was a difficult trip, family relations so strained and everyone putting a face on. Maybe being around my family filled me with the desire to be a good girl, the kind that could make it all right: it is a good girl dress, a Banana Republic dress, the kind my Palo Alto high school classmates may have worn but not I. It is a costume, I put it on and all those put on faces come right out.