Family Heirlooms
I was in Texas visiting the ‘rents this weekend, and since it was like 105 degrees, there wasn’t a whole lot to do outside. I mean it was so hot I couldn’t even bear to go from the air-conditioned house to the air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned mall. Those few dozen seconds outside between house and car and mall were more than a girl could take. Seriously!
So I found myself looking at old photo albums all weekend, and it was more than a walk down memory lane. It was a walk through five decades of fashion, from my mother’s wedding dress (which she made herself of crisp silk, with a nipped waist, key-hole collar and sleeves ending just above the wrist — my mom was quite the fashion plate) and white pencil skirts with white pumps from the early ’60s to my dad’s safari suits from the ’70s to the plaid skirts that my mom, my sisters and I all wore that Christmas in the early ’80s. (Our skirts may not have been as modern as Alexander McQueen’s for fall, but still!) And all those skinny/straight jeans… I didn’t even mind too much the grungy togs from the early ’90s. Thankfully, most of the Members Only-era pictures seem to have been misplaced at some point (and no, I didn’t burn them).
Now if only I could be as nostalgic about all my hair styles…
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