THE FAT BRIDE HE NEVER WANTED
My bag contained three pairs of jeans, four tops, one dress I wore to job interviews and a cardigan that was two years old and had a small hole near the left cuff that I kept meaning to fix.
These were not those clothes.
The trousers were a deep charcoal, fluid and well cut. The blouse was cream, silk, exactly the kind of thing I had pressed my nose against shop windows to look at without going inside. There was a blazer folded underneath, the colour of dark slate, structured and clean. And shoes. Low heeled, dark leather, the kind of shoes that said I am a person who has her life arranged.
I checked the labels with the specific curiosity of someone who has spent years knowing which labels s