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Shamasehar, you are too funny. I'm laughing loudly at the picture of what you wrote.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 14, 2021 at 4:24 PM
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Sassyass
That is a big space between children. We had friends who had one boy who was 20 and got married that year and his mother got preg when he was married. When her new little baby girl was tiny she had a heart attack and died and the son and his wife raised his baby sister as their own.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 14, 2021 at 4:22 PM
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Christmas as a child for me was all about Barbie
Fortunately, we did have a fireplace. Growing up as an only child, I wished for a sibling. I finally got a brother when I was 18. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on December 14, 2021 at 7:19 AM
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Good morning
Those ruffle-rimmed anklets paired with the Mary Janes are so adorable. I don't blame you for wishing for them instead of those ugly brown socks. I remember when the guys would wear knee-high socks with shorts back in the 80s. It was not an attractive look.
posted by
Sherri_G
on December 14, 2021 at 7:16 AM
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I understand the ugly socks theme.
posted by
Annicita
on December 13, 2021 at 2:39 AM
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Well I remember finding cotswool uncomfortable as a kid...an itchy fabric and would walk with my legs spread very funnily...haha
posted by
shamasehar
on December 12, 2021 at 6:08 AM
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I wore those too, Taps. I remember the garter belt that was sometimes so worn I used a safety pin to hold it together, and that darned pin was cold against the skin first thing in the morning. Because we were fostered, and there were so many of us, clothes did get passed down, then mended over and over again. Grandma would give us each one of Grampa's wool socks to hang at Christmas, and it was ample enough to hold lots of goodies!
posted by
adnohr
on December 11, 2021 at 10:45 AM
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and I suppose the spoiled brats with it a little easier would trot off to Church on Sunday with those lovely shoes and yes lacy topped white socks and even worse a dainty hat on the head and little lacy white cotton gloves!
posted by
Kabu
on December 10, 2021 at 4:45 PM
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Re: CCT
HaHaHa. Sorry to laugh at your misery. I love it.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM
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I think we had wool knee socks, but don't remember for sure. I know
my Grandma Lucy wore just such brown cotton stockings and klutzy shoes as you describe until she was well into her 80s. You probably looked adorable and your photo would nowadays make a great illustration for an old-fashioned Christmas card, even though you remember yourself as an ugly duckling. 
posted by
Pat_B
on December 10, 2021 at 10:55 AM
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Of course, when we were kids clothes were rationed. My most horrid memory was
when an old man gave us his deceased wife vests. My mother said they were very
nice and practically new. So I had to wear them with little pearl buttons and frills.
the only good thing was they didn't show under a jersey.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 10, 2021 at 10:54 AM
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How fun. I always loved that you lived in a museum.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 10, 2021 at 10:03 AM
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I myself never had to worry about stockings...My cousin, whose house did not have a fireplace, was told Santa had a key.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 10, 2021 at 9:44 AM
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For my sister and me, it was the tights that started the season so nice and warm and pleasing to wear, but then became awful when the waist-elastic got old and stretched, and the tights would not stay properly up. Hated them then, but Mom tucked one leg into the other for Christmas stockings--though we'd hang our biggest sock pinned to the edge of the bed. Then in the morning there would be these really long items stuffed full and laid across the end of the bed. 
posted by
Ciel
on December 10, 2021 at 9:43 AM
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