“Fashion icon” is probably not the first phrase that leaps to mind when you think of eccentric writer Flannery O’Connor. But O’Connor’s mother, Regina, was a talented seamstress who made a number of her daughter’s clothes, and a descriptive attention to fashion and attire can be seen in O’Connor’s fiction. The Andalusia Farm exhibit Flannery and Fashion at Mid-Century (through November 1) includes this photograph of a dress made by Regina, which O’Connor wore when she was photographed for a newspaper story on the 10th anniversary of her first novel, Wise Blood.
This article originally appeared in our August 2015 issue.
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