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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 2:36:50 PM
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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?
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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Edited by - katmom on Jan 31 2017 4:50:10 PM |
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janamarieje
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
Jana
Southern California
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 2:59:01 PM
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I would have been seven years old and although my mother never dressed my sister and I up like her, she did dress my sister and I alike many times as we were growing up. I tried not to do the same to my girls but I did dress them up for the first day of school each year where I would take a picture of them at the school marquee.
Jana
#7110
http://www.emhardt.com
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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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
7577 Posts
Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
7577 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 3:03:33 PM
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I was born that year, so I lived it, but I didn't wear it! LOL! Love the look! :) So neat! Hugs - Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
3557 Posts
Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
3557 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 3:08:12 PM
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My mother would make my dresses and my brothers shirts too and we always matched.
Never thought anything about it.
Of course my younger brother was so sick of the shirts because he got them all handed down. He never seemed to have a new shirt there for while.
Diana
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janamarieje
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
Jana
Southern California
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 3:10:00 PM
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Wow, I know my mom sewed dresses for my sister and I, but I don't recall if she ever sewed anything for my brother!
Jana
#7110
http://www.emhardt.com
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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firecatinc
True Blue Farmgirl
1252 Posts
Lenora
Fulks Run
VA
USA
1252 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 4:07:35 PM
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I remember seeing the outfits in the Sear catalog, but my mom and sister and I never dressed alike. I did wear most of my sister's clothes though as she is 4 years older than me. My mom also made a lot of our clothes. Do you remember the seams up the back of your hose? Thank the lord that they went out of style right before I had to try to wear them.
Nora
Farmgirl Sister #7131
Farmgirl of the Month, January 2017
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6517 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6517 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 4:19:39 PM
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Grace, I loved through that era too!! In 1965, I was 14 by then, but there were no Momn/daughter look alike efforts. I was in high school and a suggestion of such a thing would have been a total non-starter for me!! LOL!!!!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015 |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13564 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13564 Posts |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 4:54:58 PM
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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...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
7446 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
7446 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 5:04:27 PM
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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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Tumbleweed
True Blue Farmgirl
1019 Posts
Nancy
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 9:50:17 PM
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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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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4100 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4100 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 04:59:14 AM
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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
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Marilyn Hartman Sullivan
True Blue Farmgirl
1138 Posts
Marilyn
Oxford
PA
USA
1138 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 06:32:50 AM
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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
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Edited by - Marilyn Hartman Sullivan on Feb 01 2017 06:36:40 AM |
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churunga
True Blue Farmgirl
3919 Posts
Marie
Minneapolis
MN
USA
3919 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 06:54:49 AM
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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
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
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AutumnCountyGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Kiersten
Suffolk
Virginia
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 07:47:39 AM
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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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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl
899 Posts
Carole
New York
USA
899 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 10:36:07 AM
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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
http://www.carolesquiltingetc.com
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janamarieje
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
Jana
Southern California
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 11:11:29 AM
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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
http://www.emhardt.com
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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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
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MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl
6685 Posts
Krista
Utah
USA
6685 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 11:56:41 AM
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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.
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janamarieje
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
Jana
Southern California
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 12:15:58 PM
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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
http://www.emhardt.com
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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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
6740 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2017 : 12:36:31 PM
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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
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com
Don't allow others to steal the Glitz from your *SPARKLE*
Life is too short to knit with ugly yarn!
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HealingTouch
True Blue Farmgirl
3448 Posts
Darlene
Kunkletown
Pa
USA
3448 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2017 : 11:04:43 PM
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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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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2017 : 7:49:05 PM
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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.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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HealingTouch
True Blue Farmgirl
3448 Posts
Darlene
Kunkletown
Pa
USA
3448 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2017 : 8:08:31 PM
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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?"
When it gets to hard to stand, Kneel!
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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