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Girls and Women of the 1920s
My mother and eldest sister have come across my writing on this blog (thanks to a friend who posted links on Facebook) and it's prompted a bit of collective re-visiting of family history. Since she read my blog post "I have lived in many houses", Mum has started listing all the houses she and Dad lived in over the years, and has been looking out photos of those houses. (There are surprisingly few,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], alas.) Mum also has lots of stories of her own about those houses, and I plan to sit down with her soon and record them, and perhaps share them here. This stuff is important way we live our lives.
Connected to all of this is the fact that now I am well settled in my lovely old house,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I want to hang family photos in the timber-walled hall. My parents have a lot of old family photos,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], going back quite a few generations (especially on Dad's side). I love the way old photos were hand-tinted,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and mounted beautifully on card borders,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and I'm hoping in addition to getting copies made,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I can have some of the originals too. There are four of us kids,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so we'll have to make sure they're shared around,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and anyway, Dad is not ready to just hand them all over yet,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and nor should he.
However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I did manage to borrow a few photos to scan, and I had a few myself here at home, and I'm going to post them here bit by bit over time. Thematically, I think.
Starting tonight with some photos of women from my family in fabulous frocks of the 1920s. Because frocks not to love?
The young women in these first photos are distant relatives daughters of my paternal grandmother's aunt. I never knew any of them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but I love these photos and am glad to have copies of them. They are glimpses into lives past, lives that were so different, yet at heart, so like our own.
This is Ettie Bailey: she's nearly 17 in this photo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and it looks like she was a bridesmaid:
Here's Ettie again looks even younger here, probably because her hair isn't "done":
And here's her sister Lena. I love her dress and shoes. The dress looks homemade, although I don't know,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], obviously. He died when I was six weeks old, but I have always felt as if I knew him, from family photos and the letters he wrote to Grace from his time as a soldier in World War 1. Grandma Pet (so named because she called my eldest sister "Grandma's Pet") died when I was only five, so my memories of her are sketchy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but true. My mother looks a lot like her.
Somewhere I know I've seen a photo of my paternal grandmother,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Violet Ridge (nee Nicholas) in a classic 20s dress and cloche hat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but I don't have a copy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so instead,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], here is her wedding photo from March 1924 years ago last week. Violet married my grandfather George Ridge,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the wedding party is made up of (l-r) Granddad's brother Ned, Gladys Ridge (I think she was Ned's wife), Florrie Nicholas (related to Grandma,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not sure how) and Grandma's young brother Reg with the too-short pants and the Split Enz hair.
If you can,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], check out the shoes!
OK,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that's a bit small, so here are the shoes:
Grandma's shoes:
Gladys Ridge's shoes (with Granddad's to the right):
and my favourites,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Florrie's gorgeous lattice-fronted Louis-heeled pumps:
And although he's not a girl or woman, we have to have a closer look at poor Reg's ankles:
Reg was about 17 at Grandma and Granddad's wedding. He married young himself to Nance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who is the woman in the cloche hat on the left in the photo of the three older women in the Bailey family photo), and died tragically at ab out 21. It's nice to think of him as this awkward young bloke with the rolled-up trousers and fancy socks (not to forget the Split Enz hair) at his sister's wedding. I wish I'd known him.
I did know both these grandparents (who called me Tiny Town) died when I was 15,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Grandma when I was 18, so I've lived nearly twice as long without them as with them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but they were such a huge part of our family, my memories of them are vivid and strong and very much part of who I am. Granddad was tall (well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tall to me) and warm and dependable, never stern,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], always loving. I think it's fair enough to say we all adored him. Grandma was little,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and a bit stern, but also funny and warm and loved to have her family around her. I still kind of miss them. I hope they'd be proud of me,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whatever that means. I know they would love me, wherever I ended up.
Anyway,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], let me finish with this photo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], again of women I never knew,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but which may be one of my all-time favourite family photos. Also taken some time in the 1920s (I think), I believe the woman in the middle is my great-grandmother Kate (perhaps two greats?). I think back over the decades and generations,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and all the good Methodist stock I come from,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the assumptions we have about people in the past and the way they thought about the world and the way they led their lives and I think of this photo, and these respectable women with their skirts hoicked up to their generous, dimpled thighs and I think not so different, you and I.
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