Alice Munro, is a kind of Super-realist artist whose concern lies in suggestion of something significant, contained in the seemingly ordinary scenes and objects; something which is not blatantly expressed but sensitively felt and sensed by the viewer. Details in her stories gain metaphoric significance and she uses these details so vaguely and subtly which gives the impression of being a realist writer concerned only with the “Surface of life”. (Gibson 241) The full impact of these ordinary details is understood only after a careful reading which shows how interwoven these details are to the meaning and feeling of the story. One such detail is description of the clothes of her characters which this article endeavours to study in this light. Key Words: Clothes, Dresses, Surface reality, Psychology, Revealing, Character’s mind. Article: In an Interview with Graeme Gibson, Alice Munro makes a very interesting comment about her writing and the way in which she develops her characters. “But you see that I do not write about, I can’t write about states of mind. I have to write about.....I can’t have anybody in a room without describing all the furniture you know....I can’t yet get into people or life without..........having all those other things around them.( Gibson 257) These ‘other’ things that surround Munro’s characters and contribute to their vivid portrayals develop into images that enrich the particular theme, the meaning, or in Munro’s own world, ‘the feeling’ of the