Dress You Up: A Capsule Collection of Fashionable Fiction

Dress You Up is an anthology like no other. The twelve diverse stories in this collection speak to the multiple ways in which fashion is more than just the clothes we wear. There will be no frivolous yarns about fashion here—those tales can be found in other closets. This Capsule Collection of Fashionable Fiction illustrates how the clothing and accessories we wear or covet often reflect past memories, present challenges, or future hopes and dreams. The stories focus on themes such as trauma and healing, perception and identity, love and loss, hopes and dreams. Ultimately, these stories help us understand how fashion can shape who we are or who we want to be. Edited by Brian Centrone (Salon Style: Fiction, Poetry & Art and Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South) and illustrated by Stephen Tornero, Dress You Up will dazzle and delight readers as much as it will touch and move them.

“These masterful stories will entertain you, and often touch you in unanticipated ways.”

—Paul Russell, author of Immaculate Blue

“Fashion is the thread that unites these impressionistic short stories about pleasure, loss, and longing, capturing the emotional weight of the second skins we wear every day.”

—Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, author of Worn on this Day and The Way We Wed