High Fashion For The Kindergarten Set - 1964
These are exactly what we little girls wore back in the day...I'm really old. ;-) The hats, gloves and purses would have been for church or something special like a party, but these were everyday wearables. And mind you they had to be ironed each time too! 
Definately! My sisters and I (they were born kids about the time this pattern came out) had to weat shorts under our dresses if we wanted to use the Monkey Bars at school. I'm older than dirt so I remember when we were first allowed to wear pants to school. I think the admin just got tired of fighting the girls over short skirts, it was the late 60's so the skirts were really short! I can also remember when pantyhose first came out. A package cost a quarter at T.G.&Y. I went through a lot of them since I was rough on hose, but it beat wearing a girdle and stockings. Fashions are so much more sensible now when you can wear pants or leggings under a dress, if you want.
ReplyDeleteSorry, meant to say they were born then, they weren't born kids though! Poor mom!!
ReplyDeleteI narrowly escaped girdles, but I remember "pettipants" that we wore under skirts. Pants were finally allowed in middle school, but only if it snowed (pretty rare in Seattle), and they had to be matching pantsuits, no jeans of course. The boys wore jeans all the time, but clearly we girls couldn't be taught unless our pants had a vest or jacket that matched.
ReplyDeleteFor you youngsters out there I'm 55, not really a dinosaur. You should all thank the Womans Lib movement, they made all of our lives better.
(Including those Moms who no longer had to iron little dresses every day!)
Shorts under dresses on the monkey bars! What a good idea! I wish my Mum had met Mamafrog's Mum back then. We just weren't allowed on the monkey bars because "someone might see your underpants". I must add that our dresses came down to our knees though - Mum made them, but she didn't make them the length shown on the patterns.
ReplyDeleteThe shorts were a school rule-but coming from a Southern conservative German Lutheran family, I would've had to wear them anyway! Those polyester pantsuits from the 60's were miserable in Oklahoma's warm fall and springs. I wore shorts and lighter dresses in the summer. Seems like my grandma offered to make me some pettipants--but I wouldn't have worn them. (She made all my clothes then.) I was a serious tomboy then. I even had my own ball glove and could out throw my younger brother for several years.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, the monkey bars...only sport I was ever good at.
ReplyDeleteAnd there were "Play Clothes", not to be confused with "School Clothes" and then there were "Church Clothes". You came home from school and changed first thing. Heaven forbid you played outside in your school dress. And don't forget slips under those dresses!