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Chipoupine Another Giveaway and the Lucky number 53

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Medals. We all deserve one.
For waking up in the morning and putting our best foot forward.
For stopping and listening to a child, when we are in a hurry.
For loving one another even when we would rather turn our backs.
For believing that darkness never conquers.

Charity-medal

Your comments yesterday were fantastic. Isn't it impressive how a simple question can conjure up memories? I love reading the comments, it is as if we are gathered around a big table talking non stop. One thought leading into another, someone going off on a tangent, another person laughing, another with a tear in her eye… The comments create a feeling that we are in this together and it is good.

Thank you for sharing your stories with me.

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Some of the comments:

Susanna wrote:

"I came
about this medal in an unusual way. About a month and a half after my
mother passed away, I was in my bedroom pinning something with a
straight pin, when I dropped the pin. When I bent down to pick it up,
right next to it was a beautiful little medal of Saint Teresa. I had
never seen this medal in my life. Saint Teresa was my mother's favorite
saint, because her mother's name was Teresa. This was a much needed
heart-touch in my grief, and I still have no explanation for it's
appearance."

Genevieve's comment about the host press which made her remember this:

"…I could
tell you a great story about naughty school girls getting into
unconsecrated hosts and squirting cheeze whiz on them for appetizers,
as they waited for after school choir practice to begin. I could go on
to tell you about the nun who tried to keep a straight face when those
same little Catholic school girls were caught with chipmunk cheeks,
frantically trying to dispose of the evidence. I could continue on to
tell you how long it takes little girls to scrub and polish each pew in
a very, very large church."

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The winners are:

Pauline H.
"I ate my
medal……Twenty years ago my children gave me a large chocolate medal
for "The Best Mum in the world" obviously I no longer have it!

and the correct answer:

Lilly:

"The item is tongs for baking hosts. The
large pattern is for the host for the Celebrant and the small patterns
are for the wafers for communicants…."

Please send me your addresses and I will send you a medal!

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chipoupine

My friends over at CHIPOUINE have sent me a child's quilted shirt for a giveaway on my blog. (photo above Chipoupine.)

If you are interested in winning one here is the newest question to respond to in the comment section:

What was one of your favorite article of clothing when you were a child?

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I loved Halloween. My mom made all our costumes. I remember this one… it was made out of a burlap sack and it itched more than ten million mosquito bites!.

Aren't those shoes too cute!

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I am going to be giving prizes away all this week… Why? Because it is my birthday soon, and 53 has been my lucky number since I was a wee one!

So let me know in the comment section about a memory have regarding an article of clothing you had as a child.

I'll pick a winner tomorrow for the cute little quilted shirt that Cipoupine sent me.

Comments

59 responses to “Chipoupine Another Giveaway and the Lucky number 53”

  1. Miss Robyn

    are you 53? I thought you were the same age as me.. born in 1958?

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  2. Jackie

    Happy Birthday! My b-day is tomorrow…Groundhogs day! Do they have Groundhogs day (or an equivilent) in France?

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  3. Linda C.

    My mother’s bra…I would sneak into her room, find it, stuff it, then I’d top it off with her lacy ,shell pink, satin petticoat…It felt like an evening dress. It was so beautiful. Then I’d sing & dance, in a world of make-believe… of course all the while looking in the mirror, I thought I was gorgeous! I was probably 7.
    Thank you Corey, I love these posts and reading all the comments.

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  4. carol

    My Annie Oakley outfit complete with boots. I remember going with my Dad to gas up his car and of course I had to get out and strut around because … I was cool!

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  5. Karin

    I’m kind of hoping you’re not turning 53 because that means I lost a year somewhere! lol Love your photos! Such a sweet and innocent time.
    My favorite article of clothing when I was small was a pair of flowered pedal pushers. I wore them all the time and with everything, even if they didn’t match. I did not care! You can imagine how sad I was when I outgrew them. The little shirt is adorable. 🙂

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  6. Nancy N.

    This year 53 will be my lucky number as well. My favorite article of clothing was an orange floral peasant dress made by my mother. Really the only reason I remember it was that I desperately (crying and tears) wanted to keep it after I had outgrown it, but in the give away bag it went. Sure hope another little girl loved it as well as I did.

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  7. Sheala

    My favorite article of clothing growing up was a dress my Aunt MaryAnn made for me. It was a green sleeveless dress with tucks going down the bodice to my waist. The “skirt” part was a bit full and it was covered with daisy appliques (I have no idea how to spell that word!) It was super cute! I had some seperation issues when I was that age and had knots in my stomache and tears in my eyes every day going to school! Having my aunt sew that for me was such a wonderful surprise! I felt special and wore it to my first day of school at Sycamore. I had to walk to school too and it really calmed my nerves. I was just remembering that dress a few weeks ago and was wishing I’d saved it ♥

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  8. Vicki Archer

    When is your birthday Corey?? Mine is tomorrow! xv

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  9. Margaret Bouwmeester

    Corey, you photos are adorable! I had two favourites, my little bubble dress (mom made) because it looked just like my older sister’s….. I thought I looked so grown up like her. Secondly, my mohair sweater my knit, it was soft and sweet, orange marmalade in colour, and I just loved it!
    I want to learn to knit before my grandchildren are too old for sweaters made by Gramma!
    Hugs,
    Margaret B

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  10. Margaret Bouwmeester

    Oops. I meant to say my mom knit the sweater.
    Margaret B

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  11. marlis

    Happy Birthday, I remember 53!! it was a good year and i hope it is for you too! My favorite clothes as a child. My grandmother bought me red lederhosen with heart pockets. i loved them and wore them religiously. I can remember her taking butter to get rid of road tar and it worked.. and then there was this dress my mom made so that i could be the flower girl my aunt’s wedding. It was soft pink with gold highlights. flowers. hard to describe, but i can see it vividly. and the third item is a grey and white houndstooth sweater my mom knit. she didn’t even remember it but vaguely.. but i loved it and she was going to make me another before she died, but that didn’t happen. I guess it’s up to me. Thanks for the memories..

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  12. Mary Ellen

    Love your blog, and your photos always intrigue me and carry me away. Would you please tell the camera you are using? Thanks, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

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  13. Laura

    My “Yum Yum” dress was my favorite! My mom made me the cutest little school dress from fabric that was printed with cakes and cupcakes and it said “yum” here and there in the print.
    Thanks for reminding me…and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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  14. Jeanne

    Happy Birthday and much love
    Love the pictures
    Love you
    Kisses

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  15. Lorelei

    My favorite article of clothing was a pink cordoroy dress with white eyelet trim on the collar that a friend of my mother’s made for me for school. It was my favorite because she allowed me to pick out the material. I have a school picture wearing it – complete with pixie cut hair and a cut on my chin.

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  16. Ardi

    My favorite outfit was a drum majorette dance costume when I was 7 and took tap dancing lessons. It had a “top hat” of white with a bill and gold braid. The skirt and top had feather boa for trim which shed as we went through our number. Somewhere in a move from this house to the new house, the costumes were discarded. Sadly.

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  17. georgie

    My favorite outfit was blue jeans and cowboy boots. Various tshirts for the top. Each summer my parents would take me to Wigwam to pick out new jeans and boots. We’d go on vacation to my uncle’s cattle ranch in North Dakota and I had to look like a cowgirl!

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  18. susan

    My favorite item of clothing was a skirt my grammy made for dress up play. It was a skirt, dress, my pink flowered long flowing hair( unfortunate pixie cut ) and nun’s wimple(I was enamored with the the story of Bernadette for awhile). I wish I still had a magical skirt..it would make my butt look smaller.

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  19. Antique Therapy

    My favorite piece of clothing as a kid was an oscar the grouch winter hat!! it was as green as can be with big eyes on the top and a big fluffy pom pom!! I loved that thing so much until one day sledding I think it fell off and I lost it 🙁 I was so sad I lost it. I should try and find one for my son, but instead I bought him a cute doggie handmade looking hat from Anthropologie, He looks so cute in it. reminds me so much of me when I was a kid! Again I love your blog so much, I read it every day!! Do you have any more of those crowns?
    Thanks for the ongoing inspiration!!
    Keri

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  20. Julie Ann

    It has to be between my yellow crimpolene trouser suit – flares or my sugar pink fur fabric bomber jacket ! I was a 70’s child ! Jx

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  21. Delores

    It’s my birthday soon too! 56 is my lucky number this year. My favorite article of clothing was a blue shirtwaist dress that my Aunt Donna made. She must have gotten a deal on the fabric, because she also made my Dad and brother button down shirts! My Mom didn’t sew, so we were costume challenged at Halloween. Just a stupid plastic mask. No awards for my brother and I for best costume, that’s or sure.
    PS: Is your birthday Feb. 4th? Mine is……As well as my best friend. We will both be 56 (OMG!)

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  22. mindi

    I love your halloween pictures. I think that the homemade costumes are the best! I always had homemade ones and I still make my own now! My favorite dress is my wedding dress!!! I designed it, and still dont have the heart to put it in a box.

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  23. AmyKortuem

    Umm…this is embarrassing, but I think people will laugh. When I was 4 years old, I begged my Mom to cut my long hair into a shag cut (it was the 70s). I hated my haircut immediately. So I walked around with my green silky pajama bottms on my head for a year, pretending the legs hanging down were long hair. My parents even took me out wearing them, they were so used to seeing me with them on my head!

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  24. yvonnerosenfield

    Great post… My favorite was a red cross nurse’s outfit, hat and cloake of navy blue with big red cross.

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  25. Marilyn

    I don’t remember much of what I wore as a child, except what I see in pictures. I have a picture hanging on my wall of a hand crocheted dress my grandmother made for me. I still have the dress tucked away and put it on my daughter when she was two. I have side by side pictures in that dress.
    Oh my, but you were a very cute little one in your costumes.

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  26. Gwendie

    I had a blue dress with a ruffled collar my great-aunt gave me when I was two or three. I still remember it. When I outgrew it, I had my mom dial her number so I could tell her I NEEDED another one. When my last girl was two, I found one in the store in pink, almost identical to my blue one! We still have that one somewhere.

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  27. Jeanne

    My favorite dress when I was a child was a dress my mom made me of pale pink seersucker with a pattern of little pink roses all over it. It had a lovely full skirt and puffed sleeves and I mainly wore it to church and parties. However I begged to be allowed to wear it to school one day in the first grade. I must have worn my mom down because she finally let me. I wore it and played the usual tomboy games at recess ending with a rip in the material of the top of the dress (I was going to say a ripped bodice, but I was only six) and having to wear a sweater over it the rest of the school day. I was mortified and my mom was not too pleased, but almost 60 years later, I still love that dress.

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  28. carol

    When I was about 5, I got a new pair of black patent leather shoes with beautiful pink cameos on them. I remember keeping them in their shoe box out where I could just look at them all day. I showed everybody those shoes! I would put them on and just gaze at my feet. Oddly enough, I do not have a shoe infatuation now. In fact, I rarely buy shoes until mine are worn out!

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  29. annieelf

    How cool. I didn’t win because I wasn’t first but I guessed correctly. I think this is a first for me Corey. Congrats to Lily.

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  30. linda marcov

    At 13 I was given a pair of “baby doll” p.j.’s that were dotted Swiss, white,with lot of little tucks and small ruffles. I had just a hint of what sexy was and thought these fit the description of sexy….I wore them out, I lived with my Aunt and I would leave the house with shorts on and the top and then remove the shorts and prance around in just the ruffle bottoms… to this day I feel most “sexy” in a bit of ruffle and white I could wear everyday of the week. But at 13 outside in my p.j.’s ,I must have been a sight! oh well!

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  31. Sally

    My mother sewed me a brown velvet dress, copied from a picture she’d seen in McCalls magazine. In New Zealand this magazine was expensive so she and her friend worked the 2 copies they owned for all they were worth. The dress started life circa 1962. It had piped waist and elbow lines, a gathered skirt, 3/4 sleeves with bell gathers at elbow with both the velvet and an under layer of ecru heavy cotton lace peeking below. The same lace was at the neckline. It started too as low waisted and ended as empire line (it had a generous hem!). When i finally gave it up 4 or 5 years later you could hold the skirt to the light and see through the threadbare lines of the gathers. I loved it. I fancied myself as an old fashioned writer! Luckily for my mother who had four young children, by the time she sewed similar fabric for my sister, the shift frock was in fashion…so much easier!
    Thanks, Corey for the opportunity to think about how much work my mom put into this dress (and others)! I love your burlap outfit, very cute.

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  32. christine allen

    My mother was lacking when it came to dressing her girls. She was not comfortable with her girls and it was obvious she favored her sons. We never looked “cute” or “in style”. When mini skirts were popular, I had to wear pleated wool skirts mid calf. With my sparkly pink eyeglasses, braces, short permed hair and Buster Brown shoes, she made sure I was the biggest dork in school. I don’t remember having a favorite outfit.

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  33. Rhonda P

    What adorable pictures of you! Those cheeks are just too cute.
    At 53 yrs. young, I still remember my Grandmother making my entire kindergarten wardrobe. My Mother said every Mom asked her where she “bought” my clothes that year. My favorite was the navy plaid dress. Although, I wear black every day, navy is my second choice.

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  34. Patti

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    My clothing story goes like this. My parents owned an dry cleaning business when I was in about 2nd grade. The law at that time was things left over a year could be disposed of. So if someone didn’t pick up their clothing and didn’t answer the phone call saying we were getting rid of the item, out it went. Someone brought in three little dresses…I can still remember the shiny pink & grey striped one with puffy little sleeves and the little pink collar. The dress stayed on the rack for over a year (because they were so cute). About a year and a half later, I was just the right size for them so my parents re-cleaned them and I wore the pink and grey to school. Wouldn’t you know it, that was the day the owner came back to pick them up. My parents ran to school with a change of clothes for me, took the dress back, cleaned it and gave them to the woman later that afternoon. She never knew. I loved that dress! And all these years later, it still makes me smile!

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  35. Ann

    I went to catholic school K-8 and wore a uniform so I blame them on making me a clothes fanatic.
    As a child, my aunt (a seamstress) would come visit with a load of clothes. She would let us pick out any dress we wanted. Once I picked out a beautiful classy red dress with a satin sash. Perfection!
    Second favorite, is a dress my mother made me for my senior banquet. It was like a no other designer dress, beautifully made. Perfection again!
    I love clothes. My closets are full of beautiful designer clothes with matching shoes, bag etc. which I never wear because I have gone totally casual. Must be a phase or maybe I have finally come to my senses.

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  36. Natalie Thiele

    Happy birthday, Corey.
    One of my favorite dresses was a blue and white windowpane checked dress with a white pique collar and hand smocking across the bodice. My mother made it for me for a piano recital, mine in blue and a matching one for my sister in red. I was not a good pianist, but I sure had a pretty dress.
    I loved that dress.
    One day, coming home from school I caught my sleeve on the gate latch and tore my dress. I cried and cried. When Mother came home I showed it to her and she FIXED IT! I was absolutely ecstatic. I wore that wonderful dress until I outgrew it. Back then we never saved things, we just passed them on to a second hand store so that someone else could enjoy them. I do wish I could see that dress again, though.

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  37. barbara gillies

    i have 4 sisters and i am the youngest so needless to say i always got the hand me downs. my aunt who we would visit every summer was an incredible seamstress. when i was in the 3rd grade i remember she let me pick out some material and said she would make me a “Sunday” dress (just for church) i picked out a pale pink fabric in her collection of fabrics and i can see that dress in my minds eye. it was an empire dress and it had a black ribbon under my not so developed bust. i loved it and felt like i finally had a dress that was mine and no one elses. i miss her terribly. Thank you Aunt Ruth for giving me something of my very own.

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  38. jen

    well, my most favorite article of clothing
    (interpreted very lightly!) was in my mom’s jewelry box! She let me look at it once in awhile, but I actually got to wear it at Halloween! Then, I used all of the long beads, bangles, etc. to be a gypsy almost every year of my childhood ( with one of her long skirts). I’m still a “jewelry” girl today & wear it daily, with my jeans especially!

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  39. Patty

    my red cowgirl boots, I wore them everywhere. My mother hated them.
    At age 53, I am still wearing cowgirl boots but now I have them in not only red, and purple and brown and…..

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  40. Kathie B.

    Besides clothes (mostly homemade, first by my mother, later by myself), my fondest memory is of the Capezio flats I wore in high school (plus a killer pair of Bernardo sandals). I could hardly wait till Layton’s shoe store sent out advance notice postcards of their private list semi-annual sale for those of us on their mailing list! I still remember what a lot of my pairs of Capezios looked like, even though it’s been decades…

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  41. JILLIAN

    I CAME FROM A FAMILY WHERE HAND ME DOWNS WERE A MUST.
    I REMEMBER A DRESS MY OLDEST SISTER HAD THAT WAS A BEAUTIFUL BLUE DENIM WITH RIBBON TRIM ON THE BODICE.
    I COULDN’T WAIT UNTIL IT WAS HANDED DOWN TO ME. THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS THAT I HAD TWO SISTERS THAT WOULD WEAR IT BEFORE IT WAS GIVEN TO ME.
    ABOUT FIVE YEARS LATER IT ALMOST FIT ME, BUT A NEIGHBOR FAMILY HAD FALLEN ON HARD TIMES . THEY HAD A DAUGHTER THAT WAS A YEAR OLDER THAN ME AND MY MOTHER ASKED ME TO DONATE SOME ARTICLES OF CLOTHING TO A BOX OF FOOD AND OTHER ITEMS FOR THE FAMILY.
    GUESS WHAT WENT INTO THE BOX.
    I CAN STILL PICTURE THE DRESS AND THE GIRL WEARING MY DREAM DRESS.

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  42. Denise Moulun-Pasek

    You look delicious in that little burlap costume. If I’d had a daughter…
    My favorite article of clothing was actually a costume. Remember the ballet skirt that came with hard plastic high heels. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. I was four.

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  43. g coughlin

    my favorite piece of clothing was a white tee shirt with red lettering that read something like MY DADDY IS A MARINE. when i would ask my mom “How could you let me wear something like that for so so long?” ( i swear he bought it for me when I was 4 or 5 and on my 10th birthday there is a picture of me “posing” in the middle of the street with this tee shirt on, tan cords(which were floods i might add) white socks and navy blue Ked sneakers. My mom said I always wanted to be comfortable, in something that did not itch. Well to this day, given a choice of anything to wear I’ll always go with a white tee shirt and a pair of jeans. They truly get better with age , just like wine and friendship. I love when they get worn and sheer and smooth from repeated wearing and washing to this day i LOVE wearing white tees no lettering, well maybe on some of them. i loved reading all the comments–insight about who we are and what we like….interesting very interesting. g

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  44. rita

    53 is a great age! i know. i am there!

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  45. Shells and Jewels

    Happy Birthday Corey – I receive great enjoyment reading your blog. I, as many lucky Americans do, enjoy reading about day-to-day life in France. It is very enlightening. I wonder….do perhaps some of the French ever wonder what it is like to live in the United States? I live in Southern California and life is so different here – but I do love it. Thank you for pleasant blogs. Bonnie

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  46. Alina Klein

    My favorite article of clothing when I was younger were these great floral leggings that were so in when I was growing up in the 80s…you couldn’t find me in anything else! My favorite Halloween costume ever was my mom put me in a California raisin outfit…It was so big that I could not really see out of it and I had to have classmates lead me across the street and hold my hand wherever we went. Wish I could find a picture!

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  47. Laura

    Well, 52 has always been my lucky number! You’re one up on me! My most memorable article of clothing was my blow up petticoat….it was frothy with ruffles and had a tube ring around the bottom which we would blow into each Sunday morning before Sunday school. My skirt would stand out in a perfect circle and looked just grand…until I sat down and the front would fly up!
    🙂 Laura 52 Flea…not 53…52!

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  48. Elizabeth

    Happy Birthday Corrie! Mine will be later on the 16th, entering the fifties…!
    I remember a swimsuit from about age 6…it had a 3-D foam seahorse as decoration on the top of the striped one-piece and I wore it even when not in the water! The seahorse was attached with one stitch through the middle, like a brooch, and would deliciously fill with water from the pool and I delighted in squishing it out! I couldn’t swim a bit, didn’t learn until a college class, but I loved to run thru sprinklers!
    How funny to remember that, thanks for jogging my memory 🙂
    Love reaching all the other posts!

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  49. Kristy

    Grandma sewed all of our clothes when we were little. In first grade, she made a dress for me that had huge yellow, black and white splashes of color and a black bow tie at the top. It was HIDEOUS!! But, it was my favorite and I swear I tried to wear it EVERY day…. My mother loves to retell the story that I wore that dress to school one day sans underwear and went up on the monkey bars…. a call home was promptly made.
    Ah sweet, sweet memories!

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  50. cynthia Wolff

    My auntie Edith made me a dress out of purple netting with about 4 layers of underskirts…I am looking at the photo of it right now..I must have been about 5…My mother did not sew but auntie Edith(who did not have any children) indulged my older sister and I with some of her beautiful, original creations on her Singer treadle sewing machine. Looking back on it, she was also the one who had beautiful antique furniture,rugs and jewelry,so I am sure that is where my own magpie tendencies came from.

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  51. Barbara Sydney Australia

    I didnt have any real favourites but my son (who will be a father in a few months and making me a grandmother for the first time yeah!!!)never left the house unless dressed as a super hero, he was the cutest kid, as spiderman, batman, dracula, superman, darth vader, even the hulk. Some of the costumes were store bought but more often than not he improvised and put together his own combination from the dressup box. Oh the imagination of children.

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  52. Ida Johnston

    My Grandma Bessie made me a wonderful dress to celebrate Wyomings 75th birthday. It was a reproduction of a dress that would have been worn 75 years before and I loved it! It was 1965 and I was 5 years old! It was a dress that made me feel loved and special!

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  53. Sara

    In my kindergarten school picture I have on a pink dress (over a white blouse). I loved this dress. It was pink dotted swiss with machine embroidered flowers at the top. My aunt sent it to me from Korea she was living with my cousins and my uncle who was stationed there at an army base. I thought it was very special to have something sent to me from so far away!
    (There is a picture in the post “Kindergarten Memories” in Aug. ’09) on my blog.

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  54. Patt

    Julie Ann, Crimpolene, I have not heard that terms used in 48 years. Thanks… My mother made my sister and I matching Crimpolene orange dresses and knitted matching cartigans for our plane trip home to the U.S. After living in Brittan for several years. I felt so fashionable. My other favorite article were the aprons my mother used to make us. If we were invited to a girls birthday party she would make the mother and daughter matching aprons as a gift. I loved mine and was so proud to give such a beautiful gift. That was 50 years ago and I still love aprons.
    Corey, I wish I had my mother make you an apron for your birthday…..Happy Birthday, Happy 53, it just keeps getting better. Please disregard this entry for the childrens article of clothing…My prize is just being given the chance to recount the memories.

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  55. Sara Barroso

    Scrolling thru these comments gave me more time to reminisce and ponder over your question… I don’t know if I actually had a favorite that sticks out as memorable. I do however know that my youngest sister loved her pink belt. Solid little girl pink with a one of those buckles that you twist together to link. She wore it over her Notre Dame uniform in kindergarten. There she was breaking the rules at such a innocent age. With her silly pink belt tightened over her blue plaid jumper. I was mortified! In 5th grade at the time and very succeptable to criticisms and behind the back whispers i was humiliated to the point of ripping it off her one day on the playground after my mom said she wouldn’t do anything to keep her from wearing it. Obviously I still harbor this guilt.

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  56. Kate Mai

    My white rabbit fur coat!

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  57. jend’isère

    When I was 5 wore a little blue and white Toile de Jouey snowjacket with fake white fur around the hood. Having a fashion designer mother, I cherished the storebought clothes and now wonder where she bought it. Those American snowy days were spent playing clad in romantic scenes of French life years before I would live them!

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  58. Sherry

    Boy, this brought back memories! My mother had this beautiful white lace dress that I always loved. She was an excellent seamstress and cut the dress down to fit me. I was 9 years old and I felt so grown up in my mother’s dress. The first time I wore it was for “dress up” day at school in which we were to wear our best outfit. I can’t tell you how excited I was to wear my new dress. We pulled up at school and I kissed my mom goodbye and stepped out of the car…and right into a hole in the pavement. Down I went in my best dress. My knees were bloody and the dress was covered in mud. Crying my mother took me home and let me stay out of school that day. She made it a special day for me as we both got dressed up and had a tea party. Mom has been gone for 10 years now but this memory is something I will hold forever.

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  59. Barbara

    Ahhh that is an easy one. I distinctly remember (some 40+ years ago) a little dress I had that reminded me of a nurses outfit. It was light blue and had a unique neckline. I loved that dress and wanted to wear it all the time. The other outfit I remember was a dress that was an A-line shift. The right half was red with white polka dots and the left was navy with white polka dots. It had white trim on the sleeves and down the middle. When I was in the 3rd grade, my Mom worked as a teller at a bank and was held up at gunpoint. I also got the German Measles around this time. When Mom had to go to the FBI to look at photos or a line-up (can’t quite remeber those details), I went with her (since I was out of school due to the German measles) and I wore that dress. Funny the things you remember! Hope I wasn’t contagious!

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