How long can you make a dress last, anyway?
Follow That Star posted about how his mom used to dress him in clothes and shoes that were always two sizes too big.. It's pretty much how all of us lived back then. Apparently I was much easier on my clothes than he was and I have proof.

Here I am somewhere between 4 and 5 months old (the date on the picture is May, and I was born on the last day of January)
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And here I am at about 2 and a half. SAME DRESS, two years later!
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So unlike FTS, I could make my clothes last two years.

To be fair to my mom, she really didn't dress us in clothes that were way too big for us. The rule of thumb was there needed to be about a finger's width room to grow in the shoes. Since I mostly wore dresses as a kid, they just started out long and got shorter. One of the benefits of being a girl, I guess.

Thanks for the fun memory FTS!

RisibleGirl was blabbing on about another adventure on 03/19 at 09:02 AM

Go visit Einstein's blog!

  

Mike wrote:

how cute !!!!!!

thanks for sharing!


  

frozenmojo wrote:

okay. how cute are you!!!

speaking of baby clothes: we just went shopping for natty...again - that kid is worse than a mushroom after a rainy day!!! can't keep up with the growth...if i could find outfits to last two years, man! i'd be in heaven!!


  

sunbather wrote:

i imagine i'd prolly end up like one of those mothers. children just grow up so darn fast. and it's amazing how something that uses up so little cloth could be so expensive. 'course i could just keep on having children so there'll always be someone using the clothes. to maximize my investment, you understand.


  

FTS wrote:

That took a lot of guts to put your baby pics up on the internet. I have to keep one eye peeled on my mother if I take a female over to her place to keep her from dragging mine out. wink


  

Jennifer wrote:

I hate to do it to such a cute little thing, but you've been tagged over at my blog, Ms Risible. grin


  

sis wrote:

You were the cutest baby!


  

Ruben wrote:

Groovy old school pics! I like your blog quite a bit!


  

k1 wrote:

Wow.
These photos are quite a memory for me.
Pretty neat.
See? A real living Betty Boop! Like I said. You could have done a Revlon commercial! No make up necessary. What a knock out.

Hm. Do I have a memory?

That is so cool. It get's saved and printed.


  

grrltraveler wrote:

Gosh you're adorable. Nice dress too. wink

anne


  

chele wrote:

oh my gosh I am just glad to know that there are other people my age that are blogging...
oh by the way... what a intuitive mother you are..
we have to look for the signs..


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