Her face, entirely exposed, bore an indolent and haughty look
that hadn't been seen for years. The new, impoverished dress represented a
repudiation of everything Hyperion bad stotxl for. At the same time, within tbe
culture ofthe liberated dress, it struck a radical note. Women hesitated; here
and there, in a spirit of daring, someone appeared at a party dressed in the
new style. One day, as if by secret agreement, the fashion was everywhere. The
monstrous old dresses drifted into attics, where young girls, climbing the
stairs in search of an abandoned doUhouse or a pair of skates, came upon
something looming against the rafters and stopped uneasily before continuing on
their way. At dinner parties and family gatherings, people recalled the old
style with amusement and affectionate embarrassment, as one might rememher an
episode of drunkenness. In memory the dresses became more vivid, more remote,
until they seemed like brilliant birds rising in dark forests or like distant
sunlit towns. Meanwhile the new dresses grew a little shorter, a little longer;
slacks and blouses grew tighter, looser. One afternoon in late summer, on a
sidewalk printed with the shade of maple leaves and flickers of sun, a woman
walking with her young daughter had tbe sense that she was about to remember
something, something about a dress, but no, it was gone,sexy
lace ankle length dresse prom dress vanished among the
overhead leaves already turning, the bits oi blue sky, the smell oi cut
grass, the chimney shadows sharp and black on the sunlit roofs. yanzic0508.
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