Spillt Ink

The woman had been having arguments with her teenaged daughter.  They were arguing about a boy.  A boy that the woman believed was not only wrong for her daughter, but dangerous as well.  This boy tried to control her daughter.  He told her what clothes to wear, what friends she could have, where she could go and when she could go.  When the woman was asked what the her daughter saw in this boy, she replied in her daughter's voice, in a high-pitched, quickly given chant, "I love him I love him I love him," then in a quiet voice, a voice overwhelmed with disappointment, the woman said, "She says she loves him."

Dresses from literary sources:

Gone With the Wind

Aimee Bender had a fancy dress story

There's this fairy tale where the girl has three dresses, one of moonlight and starlight, one as bright as the sun, and third dress that was lovelier than the first two.

Miscellaneous mentions:

Dance halls

Dresses with names, not designer names, although that is worth a mention, but names all their own like jewelry has names

Was there an era of dresses?

Cultures in which dresses are extremely important to the women in them

Cross dressers

Dress collections

Dresses connected to music; No Doubt, The Killers

Elemental search for possibility. I'm thinking dresses. Like this one. And others. Something's there, I haven't found it just yet. But I'm looking.

From this week's notes, sparse and final, well, not final final, but gathered together in one spot:

• white roses
• a basin,  maybe metallic, maybe not, the reflecting water. white with moonlight
• "On the wings of a snow white dove.."
• peppermints
• the white edition
• the white album