1950s mom

Don't know the exact location of this picture, but apparently in or around the home where we lived in Florida... ********************************** All of the photos in this album are “originals” from the period when I was an infant in the mid-1940s — i.e., the period before I lived in Omaha, Riverside, Roswell, New York, Ft. Worth, and Denver (photos of which you may have seen already in my Flickr archives). Before I get into the details, let me make a strong request — if you’re looking at…

1956 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 89

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine August 1949

As these models from the famous Kays mail-order catalogue show, clothing in Britain has come a long way from overalls for engineers in the 1920s.

To Write or Not to Write about Fashion? Two years ago I started writing this post but then stopped, thinking that perhaps no one would be interested in reading about children’s clothes sixty …

Nostalgia, most, if not all of us, experience it, whether only occasionally or as an almost constant underlying longing. A return to the “good old days” seems to me to be the theme of the Republican campaign for president. That message resonates with distinct groups of people, which isn’t altogether surprising during a time of economic uncertainty, high unemployment rates and an unpredictable future. For many, what they imagine lies ahead and/or the future is not what they expected…