‘What I was wearing…’ proved quite a delight at our monthly ‘Memoirs’ based session. Memories were shared about the choice of wedding and bridesmaid’s dresses; being a 13 year old boy in a department store dressing room while mother and father selected a first suit for family occasions; the uniform worn as a young child on the first day of school to the starched veil worn when graduating as a nursing sister; the vexed choice of an outfit to wear to a daughter’s wedding; the ‘wearing of grief’ and a mother’s choice of outfit for the Melbourne Cup; and a ‘what I was wearing … was covered in soot’… story following a fire in an apartment building. Betty wrote her memories as a delightful poem, ‘The Clothes I Wore’, which began ‘When I was a little girl and lived just up the track, In a small weatherboard cottage with gum trees out the back’… The project for our next 500 Word Memoirs session on May 28 is Someone who Shaped Me The brief: How did you become who you are? Think about someone who’s influenced your life and start writing.
Bev Lee
Bev Lee
