Taffeta

 

Taffeta

I don't know what occasion this was. Looks like somebody sent flowers -- to me? Anyway, I do remember this dress, because it was made of taffeta. I loved taffeta dresses. Not sure why. Maybe it was the rustling sound they made.

I don't remember having a whole lot of taffeta dresses. This is the only other one I have a picture of. This photo was taken at Grandma and Grandpa Thomas' house. I remember there was one taffeta dress that was kept at their house all the time, and I hardly ever got to wear it. Funny, though -- in my memory the dress was yellow. So I don't know if this is the dress, and I'm just remembering it wrong, or if there was another taffeta dress that was yellow. I remember it was made like this one -- the taffeta part was a jumper that went over a blouse. Well, anyway... that was a very long time ago. This picture would have been taken some time around 1961 or 1962, when my hair was cut in a short pixie. I really should have kept it that way all the time, because my hair was so baby-fine that it tangled if it got very long at all. (Still does.)

Oh wait, I do have one more taffeta dress picture --

This was my junior prom dress. It was embossed with a floral design. (I still had this dress when I got married, and seriously considered using it for a wedding dress, but ended up getting a new white satin dress made in a similar style as this one.) That's my dad in the picture with me. The necklace I was wearing had a blue heart with a pink rose in the middle -- I had had it since I was a little girl. (I thought I had a picture of it from early childhood, but if so I can't find it right now.)

Another necklace I remember from when I was very young was a mustard seed in a lucite cube. I'm wearing that necklace in my 2nd birthday portrait.

It's funny how some specific items of clothing stick in your mind through the years, when all the others are completely forgotten.