Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Shop window of retro fashions and accessories (pre-loved) at Rosebud, Mornington Peninsula
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Totally Optional Prompt ~ Revisitation
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When I was quite young
Lovely dresses floated by ~
I remember gloves
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When I was quite young
Dainty high heels clicked and clacked ~
I saw dancing feet
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When I was quite young
Tall, netted and saucer hats ~
I loved their parades
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When I grew older
I knew bold coloured mu-mus
Shifts and bright sandals
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The glow was still there
But elegance slipped away
Until today's flash
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AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
Monday, September 29, 2008
Flashback Fashions
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11 comments:
like a dress up shop - nothing like that exists here. great memories...
Is that an op shop? I went to one today to get my ice cream dishes. :)
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=281854
That does look like either a fancy dress shop or a step back in time.
I'm just thankful not to wear girdles and pointy bras...let's hear it for JEANS AND TEES !!!
sharon
Yeah, doesn't it just take something like your shopfront image to rekindle the imagination, nice poetry.
I often wonder what it was like in certain periods - at least we have revivals.
Great nostalgia. Loved the pic, too.
So dreamy and nostalgic Gemma. I picture you in heels and an apron, shirtwaist dress pressed just so. Personally, the mu-mu is much more comfy, I think.
Don't you just love trying on 'pre-loved' clothes? I feel and imagine the people who loved and sometimes were loved by them...
And the smell of those shops. Some people don't like it--I particularly do. Sweat and hope and joy and lust.
Thanks for this sweet piece!!
Gemma,
This makes me want to put on a dress and a hat and a pair of white gloves and go shopping along the sidewalk shops of the old downtown.
Thanks.
I loved the poem. Wonderfully written. Sorta dreamy feel to it...
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