The Mannequin

Collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The dress in the window — it was green and bronze, with a leaf pattern, sleeveless — draped the headless mannequin who also wore a matching white-leather bracelet with green and black beads. The mannequin had her braceleted hand on her hip and the opposing hand by her side, thumb and index finger forming an “O.” She was posing for passersby, with her left foot arched upward, toes down, jetting her leg forward. Her right leg was slightly behind in stance. She was…