A story waiting to be told

I had been playing around with the idea of combining male and female costume for a long time and was getting nowhere. I continued layering wire on the man's jacket, which is on the left, and then began working on a piece about the work of another writer, Michelle Roberts. Reading 'Daughters of the House' again, I made visual lists of imagery which appealed to me in the story.

Two red petticoats
Blue cardigan
Wobbly red cross stitch on gingham
Burning red dot
skimpy bunched frocks, little aprons tied on over them