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By Anita Garner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A tad fuzzy but I wanted to get closer on that corsage<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

The church lady on the right looks exactly the way many ladies looked in our Louisiana congregation in the 1950’s.\u00a0 On the left, Sister Fern is the gospel singing pastor’s wife wearing a slinky black dress and the big corsage.<\/p>\n

From time to time we came off the road\u00a0from our gospel tours when Daddy pastored a church for a while.\u00a0 On the road she wore jersey, which clung in the right places and moved even when she stood still.\u00a0 When she married the preacher, she gave up wearing makeup and raised her low-cut necklines a bit, but she still sought enhancement wherever she could find it.<\/p>\n

She found it down at the yard goods store where she discovered polyester and nylon and plastic\/vinyl in thin sheets and stiff netting and every other difficult-to-wear, artificial material available.<\/p>\n

She made those corsages, huge prickly things they were, in every color.\u00a0 She cut out the petals using pinking shears, then wired the parts together with florist’s tape and bunches of nylon net.\u00a0 She formed all the parts into shapes resembling prom corsages – big<\/em><\/strong> ones\u00a0 – some even bigger than the one pictured.\u00a0 She was tall and her impressive front was built for displaying her creations and she wore some version of this every Sunday. Responding to compliments which may not have been solely directed at her corsage, she was happy to pass along details.<\/p>\n

“You can suds them right in the sink, shake them and they’ll dry right off.”<\/p>\n

Which doesn’t sound like a great endorsement for items meant to resemble flowers, but people kept saying nice things.\u00a0 This pleased her so much she made new ones, brighter and bigger, and gifted them to many church ladies. When I stood at the microphone on Sunday to sing with the family, I looked out at a garden of plastic and nylon net occupying the fronts of ladies in their cotton print Sunday best dresses.<\/p>\n

Then her attention turned to making school clothes for my brother and me.\u00a0 Memories of a nylon dress and Leslie Ray’s matching shirt are still fresh and painful.\u00a0 More about them another time.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here’s Sister Fern doing what she did best. Click the picture for a song.<\/p>\n

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