Plisse Shirt—Grandmother Size:1 custom-embroidered in Italy

custom-embroidered in Italy

and palms gazing shyly at their lean reflections

and trimmed with lace ladder insets

prioritizing the feel and the subjective experience of the garment for the wearer as much as its visual appearance

with silk lined pockets

Plisse Shirt—Grandmother Size:1 custom-embroidered in ItalyGrandmothers scrub their skin on bright and tiny plastic stools, spraying themselves down with peach hoses. Hair, puffed in a foam meringue, slinks mercurially into a limp, wet silk under a shower head. This bath house is thick with smeared echoes, ricocheting between tiles, mist, breasts, and soap. Other women soak clustered in a bubbling pool. One wears a damp towel as a hat and another is crying. Friends weave their arms in a flesh braid around