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A Red Dress - Alice Munro.pdf
A Red Dress—1946
A STORY
by Alice Munro
My mother was making me a dress. All through the month of November I would come from
school and find her in the kitchen,surrounded by cutup red velvet and scraps of tissuepaper
pattern. She worked at an old treadle machine pushed up against the window to get the light, and
also to let her look out, past the stubble fields and bare vegetable garden, to see who went by on
the road. There was seldom anybody to see.
The red velvet material was hard to work with, it pulled, and the style my mother had chosen was
not easy either. She was not really a good sewer. She liked to make things; that is different.
Whenever she could she tried to skip basting and pressing and she took no pride in the fine
points of tailoring, the finishing of buttonholes and the overcasting of seams as, for instance, my
aunt and my grandmother did. Unlike them she started off with an inspiration, a brave and
dazzling idea; from that moment on, her pleasure ran downhill. In the first place she could never
find a pattern to suit her. It was no wonder; there were no patterns made to match the ideas that
blossomed in her head. She had made me, at various times when I was younger, a flowered
organdie dress with a high Victorian neckline edged in scratchy lace, with a poke bonnet to
match; a Scottish plaid outfit with a velvet jacket and tam; an embroidered peasant blouse worn
with a full red skirt and black laced bodice. I had worn these clothes with docility, even pleasure,
in the days when I was unaware of the world’s opinion. Now, grown wiser, I wished for dresses
like those my friend Lonnie had, bought at Beale’s store.
I had to try it on. Sometimes Lonnie came home from school with me and she would sit on the
couch watching. I was embarrassed by the way my mother crept around me, her knees
creaking, her breath coming heavily. She muttered to herself. Around the house she wore no
corset or stockings, she wore wedgeheeled shoes and
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