Show off your parents (or relatives!)

I've been inspired by cmpollack to start this one. Thanks Carrie!

I'd like to cordially invite you to dig out those photographs of your mum or dad, or your auntie Margaret or grandpa George, dressed up to the nines and looking fabulous. Any information about dates and places would be great but don't sweat it if you don't have it.

I'll kick things off with a photograph of my mum from 1968 - we're from the UK but this was taken in Singapore because dad was in the RAF - in a striking frilled number which I remember from our dressing up box as a child. It was a pale pearly pink synthetic fabric fyi.



I just love old photographs! :love008:

 

Oh, wow, I wish I had that dress to sell!

Will have to look and see what I come up with. Great thread!

 

YOur mom is one groovy chick!

 

Aw, thanks Linda, Mary and Jonathan. I'm so proud of her, and I hope she'll forgive me for posting this!

I'm looking forward to seeing more . . . !

 

My mom was never that 'young'.

 

Ooh, what a great thread! I'll need to get the scanner plugged in and dig some out. Your mum looks cool! :D

 

I refuse to believe that Ms Vintage Peddler!

(Backtracking) OK, I'll admit that perhaps you're right. To prove it, I've seen a few documentaries recently where footage of people in the 1960s was featured, and their age was given as early 40s (for example). And they looked so old compared to how people are these days!

The 'break off' point - where you leave trendiness behind and start being sensible - was probably about 20 then (or when you got married and started a family).

Things are so different these days (since the 1990s?) because now you regularly see 30+ year olds on BMXs, dressed like teenagers. This is definitely a recent phenomenon. Things have changed so much!

Bring on those old photographs! I'd love to see them!

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Harriet - oh please do! Thanks for the nice words about mum

 

Well.... this one is really old - think I shared it once before. It is my great-uncle, Rufus Palmer. I never knew him, but my family thought the world of him. My brother is named after him (Palmer) and if I had been a boy they were going to name me Rufus (Thank you Lord!).

Uh Sarah - How old is your Mum? Somewhere I have some pix of myself in the 60's - mini skirted with fishnet stockings. Sigh.

 

What a great photograph!

I'm intrigued that his cutaway rests on his hips, whereas most of the styles I'm familiar with stop at the base of the ribcage, a couple of inches higher up. Rufus looks like a pioneer stylist to me.

Mum was born in 1945 (dammit, I'm in trouble now!) if that helps at all.

And if you're willing to share 'vintage' photographs of yourself, that would be most welcome. With that enticing description you gave, you've simply got to!

 

Oh boy - well I was born in 1946 so I'll see if I have any pix around. Uncle Rufus was from Colorado - so you may well be right about the pioneer stylist !

 

our family have never been much into taking photos......so what little photos we do have... are prob scattered around the place.....will try and find them... if i do i will post some.......

 

Thanks Mary Jane! I firmly believe that everyone has their moment, but there's not always photographic proof of it ;)

Amanda - get digging (please)!

Your uncle Rufus was surely a pioneer, and maybe in more senses than I realised at first :eureka:

 

cooltrikerchick - oh please do!

 

Here's my family circa 1968-camping. I'm the squirt. Not exactly 'stylin' though.



Marie

 

That's my grandparents in my avatar. The photo was made about the time they were married, in 1930.

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Here's my parents, right after they were married in 1951:

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It's my all time favorite photo of them!
Lizzie

 

, Maggie, you look exactly the same!


Those are GREAT pictures!

Here are a few of mine that I already have scanned. I have many more in the house.



My logo on my auction pages is my great aunt Sally, my father's aunt, taken in 1915





The little girl in the center with the big hair bow is my paternal grandmother. My great grandmother is in the doorway and my great grandfather (a NYC mounted policeman) is on the far right. From my grandmother's age, I believe this would be around 1910.





This is my great grandfather again and this one is dated 1900





That little girl with the hairbow is the lady on the right here, my father's mother. She died in 1950. So I think this has to be late 40s, maybe right before she passed. I love that she is wearing pants. She was a hat and glove model, and my Dad was a male model in the early 40s. He did Vitalis ads and modeled suits. I will have to dig up some of his modeling proofs!!

Oh, great-aunt Sally of the logo is the gal in the center here.




On the far right in this photo is my Mom at age 19 with her sister in the middle and my maternal grandmother on the left. She was very glamorous and I must find other pics of her as she was quite a fashionista. So this was taken in 1943.





This is my mother and father taken shortly after they married, so around 1947-1948. A cousin just recently gave me this image which I had never seen before. I love my mother's outfit and the shoes!





This is my parents being silly at a costume party, the pics are dated Jan. '60 so I suspect it's either Halloween in 1959 or New Years Eve of 1960. I see they are wearing "vintage" then!




This is yours truly at 13 mos, in 1965!




Jen