 Posted: Tue 4:44, 20 Aug 2013 Post subject: Girls and Women of the 1920s |
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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,デュベティカダウンジャケット, 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,デュベティカアウトレット, I want to hang family photos in the timber-walled hall. My parents have a lot of old family photos,デュベティカ 激安, going back quite a few generations (especially on Dad's side). I love the way old photos were hand-tinted,ダウンジャケットメンズ, and mounted beautifully on card borders,http://parajumperslongbear.webmium.com/, and I'm hoping in addition to getting copies made,ダウンジャケットduvetica, I can have some of the originals too. There are four of us kids,http://woolrichjacket.webmium.com/, so we'll have to make sure they're shared around,ダウンジャケットduvetica, and anyway, Dad is not ready to just hand them all over yet,デュベティカアウトレット, and nor should he. However,cheap indoor soccer shoes, 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,http://parajumperssalefreeshippings.blogspot.com/, 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,デュベティカ 店舗, 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,デュベティカダウンジャケット, 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,ダウンジャケットduvetica, but true. My mother looks a lot like her. Somewhere I know I've seen a photo of my paternal grandmother,デュベチカ 通販, Violet Ridge (nee Nicholas) in a classic 20s dress and cloche hat,デュベティカ サイズ, but I don't have a copy,ダウンジャケットレディース, so instead,ダウンジャケットレディース, here is her wedding photo from March 1924 years ago last week. Violet married my grandfather George Ridge,ダウンジャケットメンズ, 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,デュベティカ 店舗, not sure how) and Grandma's young brother Reg with the too-short pants and the Split Enz hair. If you can,デュベティカダウンジャケット, check out the shoes! OK,cheap soccer cleats, 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,デュベティカ 激安, 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,デュベチカ 通販, 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,デュベティカ 店舗, Grandma when I was 18, so I've lived nearly twice as long without them as with them,デュベティカダウンジャケット, 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,デュベティカダウンジャケットメンズ, tall to me) and warm and dependable, never stern,デュベティカ 店舗 東京, always loving. I think it's fair enough to say we all adored him. Grandma was little,デュベティカダウンジャケット, 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,ダウンジャケットduvetica, whatever that means. I know they would love me, wherever I ended up. Anyway,ダウンジャケットメンズ, let me finish with this photo,デュベティカダウンジャケット, again of women I never knew,デュベティカダウンジャケット, 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?). 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