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In Clothes Pegs Lyn Thomas tells her life story through the clothes she has worn. The story starts with her mother pegging out the washing in the garden of their new semi-detached house. Lyn pegs more clothes onto the line, and each garment becomes an episode in the story of a life that took the author from her working-class family in Wolverhampton to Oxford University, and amorous and other encounters in France, America, Brighton and London.

On January 1st 2016 we set up the Clothes Lines and pegged out the first two outfits: School Uniform 1 and The Sage-green Cardigan.

From January 11th 2016, on Mondays (the traditional washday in post-war Britain) a new piece (or sometimes two) was pegged on to the line. In July 2016 the final garment, a defiantly European  Venetian Coat, was pegged out, and the series completed. You can read along the clothes line chronologically, or click on any of the Clothes Pegs that takes your fancy…

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  • 31 The Venetian Coat
  • 30 The Spotted Dressing-gowns, or not quite yet shroud
  • 29 ‘Power Dressing’ in the Poly
  • 28 The Red Tulip Dress
  • 27 Walking Boots
  • 26 American Shorts
  • 25 Fancy Dress
  • 24 The Red Legs
  • 23 Cerise and Black
  • 22 A Laura Ashley Summer and its Autumnal Sequel

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