Bobbi B.
New in Town
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After hankering after it for about a year, I finally ordered a proper-looking repro '40s coat for winter (you Angelinos may not be familar with our quaint Midwestern weather patterns -- lucky you!). I'll try to attach a photo from the catalog. (If anyone wants a link to the source, ask). It hasn't arrived yet, hoping it will make it by Thanksgiving.
Dropped a note to Mom about it, mentioning it would be fun to have some snapshots taken on the steps at the Naval Reserve Armory, a wonderful later-30s survival in town (what the Navy is doing this far inland, I'll never know), if I found shoes that looked right. Here's her advice (with permission):
"Shoes we wore then were: sandals with a wedge heel, or ballet slippers, or heels with a platform sole.* And of course saddle shoes or penny loafers.
"Wore blue jeans with the legs rolled up to mid calf and a man's white dress shirt tied up at the waist. Then, if you had your hair in pincurls you wore a scarf tied in the front, turban style. Fold scarf in half, put it over your head with the point at your forehead, pull ends up over your ears and tie ends together over point of scarf, then pull scarf up over the tied ends and tie ends again. What a fetching look!
"We wore skirts at mid calf, sweater over the skirt with a thin belt over the sweater at the waist. Ah, those were the days."
* Platforms! Consider that Mother at 5'7" was the shortest girl in her family -- her sisters are all over 6', a fate I miss by about the thickness of a tall platform sole... And here I was thinking the platforms I'd seen online, with proper pre-New Look rounded toe, were unauthentic. (I loathe pointy toes as only a tall farmgirl can).
...And I think I know where to find just the pair of shoes. Now I need to find a sailor with whom to pose. A very tall sailor! Or a shorter one; I already own saddle shoes.
BB
Dropped a note to Mom about it, mentioning it would be fun to have some snapshots taken on the steps at the Naval Reserve Armory, a wonderful later-30s survival in town (what the Navy is doing this far inland, I'll never know), if I found shoes that looked right. Here's her advice (with permission):
"Shoes we wore then were: sandals with a wedge heel, or ballet slippers, or heels with a platform sole.* And of course saddle shoes or penny loafers.
"Wore blue jeans with the legs rolled up to mid calf and a man's white dress shirt tied up at the waist. Then, if you had your hair in pincurls you wore a scarf tied in the front, turban style. Fold scarf in half, put it over your head with the point at your forehead, pull ends up over your ears and tie ends together over point of scarf, then pull scarf up over the tied ends and tie ends again. What a fetching look!
"We wore skirts at mid calf, sweater over the skirt with a thin belt over the sweater at the waist. Ah, those were the days."
* Platforms! Consider that Mother at 5'7" was the shortest girl in her family -- her sisters are all over 6', a fate I miss by about the thickness of a tall platform sole... And here I was thinking the platforms I'd seen online, with proper pre-New Look rounded toe, were unauthentic. (I loathe pointy toes as only a tall farmgirl can).
...And I think I know where to find just the pair of shoes. Now I need to find a sailor with whom to pose. A very tall sailor! Or a shorter one; I already own saddle shoes.
BB
