March 26, 2005Happy Easter memories
My sister and me - 1954 - I'm 4, she's 3
Same two - 1967 - I'm 17, she's 16 Notice the odd tilts to our heads. Pictures were always taken with the subjects facing the sun. Ack! Close one eye, tilt the head, SNAP! I'm on the left in both shots - the blond. And you just have to love the rag curls. We have extremely straight baby fine hair. It will not hold a curl to save us. So, for special events out came the rags - strips of (clean) old sheets. Mom would start at the top of a strand of hair. We would hold the top piece - about 2 inches - of rag while she wound our hair around from top to bottom. Then she wound the rag around the hair from bottom to top and tie the two ends together. Next morning, Shirley Temple-like curls. At least for long enough for us to go to church and dinner with the family. Hair in the second picture courtesy of sponge rollers - ahhhh the first rendition of the flip. In order to get my hair to flip UP, it had to be curled UNDER. Too weird. And, tease? Oh, man . . . tease, tease, tease, back comb, spray, spray, spray. Aquanet Hair spray. The following year when I began dating my hubby to be (again - we started dating at 15 - broke up at 17 - began dating again at 18) I went BLONDE in a big way - high school grad pic shows me with the BUBBLE hair-do totally blonde. ;-) Memories indeed. Happy Easter, my friends. Posted by Purplemoose at March 26, 2005 10:44 PMComments
Happy Easter my friend. Posted by: Lisa at March 27, 2005 05:22 AMHappy Easter Barbara and Family! Darling pictures! Remember those teasing combs? The ones with the really short teeth? K, I don't either lol! ;P Posted by: Lolo at March 27, 2005 10:16 AMAdorable Easter pics and memories. Sweet! I too remember having my hair in curlers and wearing a fluffy Easter dress with petticoat slip and white socks and patent leather shoes and little purse and gloves and sporting an Easter bonnet and holding on to my big gigantic easter basket for family snaps. You both are tooooooo cute. Love your teenage flip doo too. Have a fabulous Easter! Do you hide eggs in the snow? (hee!) ;) Posted by: liljif at March 27, 2005 01:18 PMHappy Easter, Barbara! Posted by: dan at March 27, 2005 08:37 PMHappy Easter, Barbara! Posted by: dan at March 27, 2005 08:43 PMI think I will post pictures of Phyllis and Me. Forgot to do that!! Yours are soooo cute. Posted by: mary lou at March 28, 2005 10:38 AM |
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