Seam Allowance

Authors

Sarah Hafen d’Evegnée

Keywords

shirts, soldiers, laundry, seam

Abstract

The shirts hang like a battalion of cotton soldiers on the large metal rack sticking out of the wall. I remove them from the hangers one by one, letting my fingers linger over the stripes, checks, and plaids. Some of them still feel new. The laundry room mingles the freshness of laundry soap with the odor of aging linoleum and tangy, rusty overtones— the same way it has for the past twenty-five years. My children’s younger faces, their grins all gaps and crowded teeth, peer out at me from an assortment of paper flowers glued to a frame on the wall.

Recommended Citation

d’Evegnée, Sarah Hafen (2025) "Seam Allowance," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 64: Iss. 1, Article 12.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol64/iss1/12