{"id":3926,"date":"2011-09-20T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2011-09-20T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:00:12","slug":"evocative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/09\/20\/evocative\/","title":{"rendered":"evocative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nEgFOYpwR5g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love the work this dancing does with the morning routines of gendered dressing. There&#8217;s an undercurrent of violence and intimacy to the patterns that develop through the piece&#8211;so powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I &#8216;dress&#8217; each day for work (rather than defaulting to my &#8216;Mom&#8217; uniform of jeans and a tshirt), I give clothing much more attention than I used to. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking of clothing as an &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11121\" target=\"_blank\">evocative object<\/a>&#8216; of past times and feelings. There&#8217;s the dress I&#8217;m wearing today that calls memories of a special evening in Brussels this summer, the jacket that hangs on a peg in my entryway that I sometimes bury my face in to remind me of someone that I miss most when I walk in the door in the evening, the texture of a starched white shirt that pulled me back more than three decades ago when I encountered it recently (a father-memory buried so deep), and the clicking of the heels of my black pumps on the sidewalk last night as I walked home in the dark&#8230;such a sophisticated sound.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I realized that I no longer wanted the clothing that I wore when I was married. 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