Carmi's Challenge this week is all things RETRO – and a year or so ago I went to a “40’s Weekend”. I found it very amusing that everyone wanted to dress up in what they saw as 40’s clothes, and dress up was the word. Up to the nines, as they say! But I can remember coupons, lack of anything useful like knitting wool, and my mother carefully unravelling old knitted jumpers to reknit them up for me and my sister. Well, when I say my mother unravelled – she did the knitting, I did the unravelling!
However, at the 40’s weekend, I came across some wonderful HATS!
The “Weekend” was held at an old Railway Station (actually still used by a steam train up and down an old line) all done out as it would have been pre WWII. I found these milk churns on the platform. Do you remember seeing them at the end of the lane up to the farm, waiting for the milk lorry to collect? Not nowadays, all pumped straight into the big tankers.
And then there was this marvellous Art Deco window in Gran Canaria, Spain.
And if you really want Retro, don’t you just love me and my sister, with her pigtails, and our little puffed sleeves. This would be about 1944 I think. My sister is wearing a hand-me-down from me, and I am wearing either one made from my mother’s dress or a hand-me-down from someone else who had an older child than me!
Ah, happy days!
