Everyday Women of the Golden Era

St. Louis said:

What wonderful photos! I would just about die for a hat like your great-grandma's. I've been searching for one for lo these many years. What an elegant lady she was.

Do you happen to know what those white stocking-like things were? Knitted woollen gaiters, maybe?

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Frk.W said:

Family photos, 1930's mostly.

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Unknown family friend, my great-grandmother and my maternal grandmother, Easter vacation in Tännäs, mid-1930's.

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My grandmother in the pointy cap, her friend Tanja and someone else I can't identify. I love that cap and wish it still existed.

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They had a lot of fun, looking at these albums. Summer holidays at Blidö, my maternal great-grandmother and a friend, early 1930's. There's a corresponding photo of their very merry husbands posing in bathing suits with cigars - these are not giddy young girls, they are established, married women in their mid- or late 30's. I think that fact really adds to the photo. They would have been considered middle-aged, and they still had frivolous fun.

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My great-grandmother, same as above, in the late 1930's. I do have that muff.

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And again, early 1940's. Want this hat too.

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Great-grandma behind the table, sitting on the far left is her sister, and the baby with the shock of dark hair in her lap is my maternal grandmother, who was born in January 1920 and nicely dates this photograph to 1920 or possibly 1921.

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