It’s Photo Friday. It is also Easter weekend, so I am sharing a photo from an Easter past. This is a throwback photo of my sisters and I on Easter Sunday 1963.
The photo also shows a slice of history—a time in the past when people routinely dressed up! I have photos of a family vacation with us dressed similarly, with all the little girls in dresses at the beach! But Easter was special. You see the girls are wearing dresses. They have shiny patent leather shoes, little white purses, and even hats and gloves! Shopping for Easter clothes was a big deal when we were little girls, and the outfit always had to be brand new!
From this photo you can see that my Mom liked to dress the little girls alike. The two older girls are in identical dresses. Even the color is the same—a sky blue. My little sister is not dressed the same. Her dress is yellow. My guess is that the dresses were from different departments. This one was probably not offered in the smallest sizes.
Our clothes were handed down from one sister to the next. My mom often bought our clothes a bit on the big side so that we could 'grow into them. We could wear them for at least two years. Of course that meant that the younger sisters wore the ‘same’ dress for four years! Woe to the poor sister who hated the style!
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