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Everyday Women of the Golden Era

dhermann1

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My mom and her mother, near Saratoga, around 1927:
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Grandma strikes a funny pose. She looks like she's having fun!
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And here's my grandmother about 20 years later, maybe 1948, at the helm of their little fishing boat. Note that she's got her hand on about a 1 1/2 horse power Sea King outboard motor. She still looks like she's having fun. It wasn't till I scanned this shot and looked at it blown up, that I noticed what an elegant jacket she's wearing. After my grandfather died, she kept the boat a while, and I remember lovely evening putt putt rides in it.
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dhermann1

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My mom, at various stages of development

Around age 3 she strikes a pose that she frequently struck throughout her life:
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At age about 7 or 8, she has a tete a tete with a cow:
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At age 10, in 1930, she's her father's daughter, with full fishing gear:
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At age 11 she gives a good simulation of a young lady:
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Likewise at age about 14. The dog's name was Toodles:
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dhermann1

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Don't let it fool you. Here she is in her school play, "Sailor Maids", age 13 in 1933. Wouldn't want to mess with this adolescent!
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But eventually she really did become a young lady. Here she is on the Italian Riviera, in 1937. The halter top she's wearing was one of several garments she had made by a local seamstress before their trip, a not uncommon thing to do in those years, even for the middle classes. It had a little sort of bolero jacket that went with it.
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cecil

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dhermann1 I love every single one fo those photos. Thanks so much for sharing them. Beautiful!


Here's my grandmother on her horse, '40s.

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Her sister, Niki. '40s too.

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dhermann1

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5 Dithridge sisters circa 1948

Here's my grandmother (wife of my avatar granddad) and 4 of her 5 sisters.
L to R, Caroline, b 1870, Greek and Latin scholar; Rachel, b 1873, English teacher, pageant stager; my grandmother, Ethelwyn, b 1885 (the baby), English teacher; Alice, b about 1877, she had the sense to get married, move to California and raise a nice big family; and Mary, b 1871, MD, University of Michigan 1901. Missing, Aunt Harriet, b about 1876. She was in Japan, being a Pentacostal missionary for 60 years. Quite a bunch.

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dhermann1

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Not One Too Many

I found the above picture in another of the many, many many, boxes of old family stuff I have. This poem was in the box, as well. It's by Rachel Dithridge (see above) about the birth of her sister Alice (see above.) I surmise that the 34 at the top means it was written in 1934. But I have no way of knowing for sure. And yes, I came all unglued when I read it.

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Lillemor

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Thanks drhermann1 for posting all those great pictures. That is truly an inspiring picture cherry lips. That's pretty much how I dress but I wonder if I've been doing it all "wrong" by tucking tops into skirts and wearing belts over the skirts? Well, I think I look best wearing skirt and top combinations that way.:) I thought they always wore something under their V-necks until as recently as the 1980s. I usually wear a turtle neck if anything under V-necks if it's too cold but I'm just as happy wearing a V-neck by itself.
 

Frankly Scarlet

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On my last visit to Barcelona's flea market I found some picture, these are a few of them. Some of them depict the very same woman, so I guess she had only a dress dress. How do you call a dress that was only used on special occasions?
These are all spanish pictures.

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On the back: October 1945

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On the back: 28-8-47
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ColeV48

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Omaha
My Grandmother around 1944 I think:
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Next time I'm back home I'll have to get the picture of her "wedding dress". A very cute soft pink suit (I wish she had kept it!).
 

retrogirl1941

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Does anyone have pictures of artist or bohemian types during the 30s and
40's? I would love to find some different looks for everyday dressing.I don't want to look crazy but unique while at WWII events and such.

Samantha
 

Amy Jeanne

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I found these stunners on the Duryea, PA Historical Website:

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I love the suspender skirt!! And the woman on the right's slip is showing.

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I will certainly be getting some stripey socks in my future...

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I am so in love with the girl on the right. I LOVE long tight skirts and high, white socks with sensible shoes. How I dress on a daily basis.

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My favourite photo. I love the "slob." And the big mama! And I love how the dress on the gal to the left doesn't quite fit her bust and her shoes just don't go with anything. I love it.
 

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