On a hot June night, inspired and desperate, fifty-year-old Cora slips out of her house without clothes, and experiences a freedom she’s never known. Until recently, Cora was the anonymous hands, outstretched arms, and running feet in a stock photo catalog. But when she’s unceremoniously fired, Cora feels lost and invisible, an aging woman in a world that prizes young, sheathed and stilleto’d bodies. She communes with her hero, David Bowie, until the moment of release in the dark night.

After her naked forays, Cora is joined by Evelyn, a seventy-year-old neighbor with a fiery nudist past, and Avery, a thirty-year-old nurse disgusted by her body and shamed by her family. Together, they create Nude Girls Live, a manifesto and a movement. With growing devotees, massive media attention and protests, and legal firestorms, the group plans a festival and performance event, and the women power towards a very public reckoning.

With aged rage, surreal trappings, and an ancestry of Andrea Lawlor, Mona Awad and Margaret Atwood, Not a Stitch to Wear dissects the inanity of women’s clothing and wonders what happens when we’ve had enough.