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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 4273849, member: 136&quot;]In my family, if you <i>could</i> dress up for something, you <u>did</u> dress up for it! Holidays, in particular, meant fancy new outfits - Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas, especially. </p><p><br /></p><p>There were 4 of us kids, all girls, like stairsteps: we were all 18 months to 2 years apart in age. Annual family portraits were done in late fall, from the time I was a baby until the late 1960&#039;s, with copies made into photo Christmas cards. Velvet dresses, sometimes identical except for color, were the rule for those sittings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Easter outfits included pastel dresses, spring coats, hats, gloves, new shoes &amp; purses every year - i.e. &quot;the works.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to holidays, we dressed up for church every Sunday, for weekly dinners out at restaurants, for going &quot;into the city&quot;, and for more &quot;special occasions&quot; than most kids today could even imagine. We all had &quot;school clothes&quot;, &quot;play clothes&quot;, and &quot;fancy clothes&quot; and knew when to wear each type. It never occurred to any of us that this was at all unusual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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