My Mother's Wedding Dress is a book about what we wear, about apparently transparent surfaces, and what might lie beneath. Justine Picardie tells a sequence of stories that reveal the fabric of the past, and how a family has fashioned itself through the clothes that they have worn: from her mother's black wedding dress to her first party frock, a translucent winged fairy outfit that provided a lesson in what we uncover, and what we cover up.