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| katmom |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 2:36:50 PM
Am I the only one.... to have lived through this phase???
lolol!
Back in 1965, when we lived in Conneticut my mom was into these mother-daughter dresses...
Needless to say,,, my sister (who is 8 years younger than me) and I were dressed up in look-a-likes and so was mama...
I recall one of the look-a-likes in particular,,, a red corduroy shift... I hated it,,, Mama sewed a lot of my sister's and my dresses and way to often she would sew lots of these shifts in all sorts of fabric but I hated the corduroy because it felt so heavy and stiff.
I know I have some photos somewhere... I will have to hunt and see if I have them....
So anyone else wear Look-a-Likes?
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| katmom |
Posted - Feb 16 2017 : 3:15:22 PM
Carol,, I know...Right?!...
I wonder if the mom got lucky and found matching striped fabric but in different widths or if the mom actually sewed on different color fabric to make the stripes and after making the daughter's ... the mother said... "oh! To heck with that!...he gets plain white shorts and I get another glass of Wine!!!".... lololol!
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| ceridwen |
Posted - Feb 16 2017 : 07:14:00 AM
I think that little boy's shorts should have had an orange stripe on it! 
Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
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| katmom |
Posted - Feb 14 2017 : 3:08:18 PM
I think that is so awesome.... my American granny couldn't sew or crochet as she had had a stroke in herlate 40's and her left side was for the most part paralized(sp)...
My German Oma could sew and knit but due to mental health issues she only took joy in gardening.
oh how I wish I could have sat by her side, and her teach me....
Cherrish the moments and memories....
>^..^<
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| Audra Rose |
Posted - Feb 14 2017 : 06:53:35 AM
My grandma crocheted vests and ponchos for Churunga and me. The ponchos were different colors and didn't keep you warm at all. She also made us different colored quilts.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
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| katmom |
Posted - Feb 11 2017 : 6:32:48 PM
ok, I was 'trolling' around on 'pinterest' when I came across this 'Mother~Daughter outfit... lol!
I am betting this is from the early 1950's....
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| Marilyn Hartman Sullivan |
Posted - Feb 10 2017 : 06:37:10 AM
I used to make all my own clothes (I thought that's how you GOT them!) and never thought anything of it. Even when I was working in Corporate America -- I still sewed my own clothes. At some point, my body changed and I started having trouble finding a size pattern that worked for the whole me. The shoulders were okay, but the bust was too small, or the bust fit but the shoulders would have fit Ricky Ricardo. And I absolutely hate doing alterations, so that's when I started buying and I have never looked back. I enjoy quilting much more. Things still have to fit, but only to one another, and not to a moving, living, breathing, expanding PERSON! ha ha
In the early 70s, one of the "things" that we did was make shirts for our boyfriends. Oh they were lovely, too. Floral prints and body-hugging seams. Even the western style with the embroidered roses on the yokes. Ahhhh...memories. After my boyfriend became my husband, I sewed suits for him. The horrible double-knit leisure suits were easy, because the construction was pretty straight-forward, as long as you didn't mind a lot of topstitching and felled seams. But the regular constructed suits were always such an accomplishment! I learned a lot about tailoring in those days. There was so much hand-stitching in those "real" suits to get the lapel to roll right. Our little gospel singing group had outfits for performing. The girls all made their own dresses, or had their mother do it, and I made jackets or shirts for the guys. One time we had little Eisenhower-style jackets for the guys. They were rust colored and styled kind of like a jean jacket. This has been a fun memory! Thanks for starting the thread.
Farmgirl #6318
"Where there's a will -- there's probably a family fight." |
| ceridwen |
Posted - Feb 09 2017 : 08:15:33 AM
Jana, good of you to sew at a young age. Do you still make your some of your clothes?
I only quilt. I'm a straight line kind of gal, although I am thinking of taking up sewing. I don't know what it is about sewing, it really doesn't bring out the best in me. I just get frustrated because I don't understand what the pattern instructions are asking me to do. When it came to Halloween costumes for my Pumpkin, I would start out with a pattern and then just wing it!
Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
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| katmom |
Posted - Feb 05 2017 : 11:17:16 PM
Ditto that Darlene... lol!
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| HealingTouch |
Posted - Feb 05 2017 : 8:08:31 PM
Grace, yes the 60's were one of the best times of my life! Seems like yesterday until I look in the mirror and wonder who the gray haired lady is staring back at me! LOL!
Be Blessed and Be a Blessing,
Darlene
Sister 1922
October 2016 Farmgirl of the month
John 11: 35 Jesus wept.
When Satan's knocking at your door, just say "Jesus will you get that for me?"
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| katmom |
Posted - Feb 05 2017 : 7:49:05 PM
Darlene,,,
like you,,, I did a lot of sewing in Home EC.... My 1st challenging project was making a pleated wool skirt with matching vest... ahhh,,, the 1960's were good!
I must confess,,, I have made easy peasy little T-tops for my grand girlies in matching fabric,,, but I machined embroidered their names on the shirts.
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| HealingTouch |
Posted - Feb 02 2017 : 11:04:43 PM
This is a hoot! I never dressed like my mother and my sisters were 10,9 and 7 years older than me. I did wear hand me downs though. My mother worked in a blouse factory and the blouses were $1.25 and I would get every color they made of the same style! Our area had factories galore. After school and summers we all got jobs. I remember one summer I sat 8 hours, 40 hours a week, sewing darts! Yikes! That's why I became a nurse.LOL! I did sew my prom gowns and lined suits that were required in home ec. Now they're lucky if they have home ec. It's a shame because all the factories are gone. Those factories fed a lot of households. Sigh!
Be Blessed and Be a Blessing,
Darlene
Sister 1922
October 2016 Farmgirl of the month
John 11: 35 Jesus wept.
When Satan's knocking at your door, just say "Jesus will you get that for me?"
When it gets to hard to stand, Kneel!
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| LadyInRed |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 12:36:31 PM
Grace...Praise God I did not have to dress to Match my Mother...just my little sister and I.
Debby was 3 1/2 yrs younger than me...but people called us The Twins because mom always dressed us the same.
I wasn't a Fan of that...not being actual twins.
Sorry you had to do the Mini-Mom Thing. That must have been traumatic! LOL
Hugs and Giggles,
Peggy
Farmgirl #1326
Dec 2011-Farmgirl of the Month
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| janamarieje |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 12:15:58 PM
I asked my mom last night if she ever sewed for my dad and brother and was surprised that she use to sew shirts for the two of them. She even sewed a square dance skirt and matching shirt for her parents. I never new this and would love to see pictures of these! I am so thankful that I still have my mom around to ask these questions!
Jana
#7110
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| MaryJanesNiece |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 11:56:41 AM
Grace, I love this! I wish I grew up during that time so I could match outfits with my mom. Now I have my boys matching at least once a week. I have even attempted matching them to DH but he won't go for it!! So hopefully in my future there will be a little girl and I plan to have matching outfits with her.
Krista |
| katmom |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 11:34:23 AM
I love it!!! you gals are such a Hoot!...
and Connie,,, date away cuz I too remember Bell Bottoms (Sonny & Cher)...lol!
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| janamarieje |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 11:11:29 AM
Carole, I love the bit about the friend whose parents bought all the latest fashion for her. I started sewing when I was in the sixth grade and by high school I was making all my own clothing, which included a lot of the latest fashion look, from jeans and matching jean jacket, tie back buttoned shirts, bikinis, prom dresses, etc. I loved the variety of patterns and fabric that was available.
Jana
#7110
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Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz
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| ceridwen |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 10:36:07 AM
My mother and I never dressed alike, nor did my younger sister. My mom did make all of our clothing. Back then, it was economical to sew and knit. The only garment she didn't make was our snow suits! She knitted our mittens, scarfs and hats ... She also made my younger brother's pants. I had a friend who was an only child whose parents bought all of her clothing. She always had the latest fashion! I remember her coming to elementary school with bell bottom pants! Ok, I'm dating myself! lol
Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
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| AutumnCountyGirl |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 07:47:39 AM
I wasn't around then but I grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s and my mom and I matched a bit. We didn't match full outfits but we often matched sandals during the summer and share accessories.
Kiersten, Farmgirl Sister #7232
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| churunga |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 06:54:49 AM
My sister (Audra Rose) and I are only 16 months apart. In 1966, my mom had to take me to the hospital in Lacrosse, Wisconsin to get my shots for kindergarten. She had to bring my sister along and we were both dressed in the same cute little blue checked jackets. My mom left my sister in the waiting room playing with toys while she took me around to find the place where the shots were given. Meanwhile, some nurses grabbed my sister and gave her the vaccinations I was supposed to get. When they figured it out, they gave my sister a lollypop and didn't charged for her vaccines. I was annoyed and the shots really, really hurt. Every time we passed that hospital, I called them the "bumble bee doctors."
Marie, Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
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| Marilyn Hartman Sullivan |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 06:32:50 AM
Oh dear, yes! My mother was a wonderful and talented seamstress, but we never got along very well. I absolutely hated it when people told me I looked like her, or acted like her, or anything like that. (She was a secretly abusive person, and I have come to grips with all that later in life, but as a child it was very confusing) Every year at Easter she would make me the most LOVELY outfit -- usually with little white gloves and a purse and hat. That would be my Sunday School dress all spring and summer.
When the look-alikes became the "thing," I just dreaded them. I remember one in particular (probably the last one! ha ha) that was a pale yellow (MY WORST COLOR!!!!) linen weave with a mandarin collar. There is a picture somewhere of us standing there together -- I must have been about 12 or 13 -- and if I recall, I was rolling my eyes and wishing to be anywhere else! I always had hated a mandarin collar. When I got married as a teenager, she went to the dry goods store in town and bought a pattern and fabric for a "punishment" dress for me to be married in. It was pink doubleknit with a mandarin collar. But by that point I didn't care, because I was getting out of her house and away from her control.
The look-alike dresses I loved were the delightful ones she would make for me and my Tiny Tears doll. (She was actually a Tiny Tears knock-off named Dolly Tears, but I didn't know that until years later -- she was wonderful and I still have her) Every time Mother would make me a new dress, Tiny Tears got one, too. The woman never used a pattern for my little girl dresses -- she just started cutting and sewing and next thing - there would be a cute little dress for me and one for TT. We had matching terrycloth robes and pajamas, too. Tiny Tears is still wearing the little Buchanan plaid number with the yellow bias tape trim -- must be 58 years old -- my my, how well she has kept her figure!
Remember (if you are as old as I am) when all our dresses and blouses buttoned up the back? I guess it would have been okay if we had all had ladies' maids like Downton Abbey, but for us regular folks, it was always like doing gymnastics to try to get that last button in the very middle done up on my own.
Thank you for bringing back the memories!
Farmgirl #6318
"Where there's a will -- there's probably a family fight." |
| windypines |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 04:59:14 AM
Yes my mom sewed most all our clothes. Every Easter and Christmas we all had new look alike dresses. Same material and maybe moms dress might be a little different, pattern sizes you know. There are 3 of us girls. so she did alot of sewing. She did not sew alot for my brother though.
I had 3 boys, and i did sew most of their clothes, until they got older. My dad would put curlers in our hair to top it off. Us girls all had the same curl flip hair style, and crooked bangs. Looking at the old pictures is so funny. Memories are great.
Farming in WI
Michele |
| katmom |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 10:34:17 PM
Oh my goodness,, Nancy to funny!
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| Tumbleweed |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 9:50:17 PM
Grace I got one for you. My Mom and Dad were huge country western music fans back in the 60's. Even though we lived only a few miles from the beach in the middle of Orange County CA. We didn't dress like other true golden baby Californians. We had to stand out as a family in our white Lee jeans and matching western shirts loving made by my Tia Mary and don't forget the pointed toe strider heel boots and big white cowboy hats. My Tia Mary must have seen 4 or 5 sets of these fancy duds for us. Any time we went anywhere that most people dressed up we would be dressed out like cowboy clones. My Mom even wore her hair like Dale Evans with the Bobbie pin curls.
TW
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| quiltee |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 5:04:27 PM
My mother and I never dressed alike. My sister was 8 years younger, and we were never dressed alike, either, except one time when I was in college I made us dresses that were alike when she came to visit for little sister weekend. That is a nice clean crisp look.
Farmgirl hugs,
Farmgirl #1919
Farm Girl of the Month August 2015
Linda O
Lone Oak, TX
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
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| katmom |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 4:54:58 PM
I think one of the reason mom made the Shifts was because they were so easy to make and so versatile... they were sleeveless and V-neck.
That way in summer I could wear a short sleeve cotton shirt under the shift and winter I could wear turtle necks.. Oh Joy,,, I was such the fashion statement! snork, giggles...
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