This is a picture of my mother and myself about 1971 or 72. She is wearing the dress from her brother's wedding. A lovely yellow cotton number with flocked white flowers and a train. She gave this dress to Elsie a few months ago for dress-up play.
Fast forward to about 2 weeks ago, when Elsie was going to participate in her school's Storybook Parade. Each student was to dress as a character from their favorite book and march through the neighborhood led by a police escort and a parade marshall in a red convertible. Quite the To Do for a grade school! Of course, Elsie did not want to be any character that we already had a costume for.... Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Tinkerbell from Peter Pan, Cinderella... etc. Even though I presented each of them in an exciting manner with the promise of accessories and a grand styling event. She wanted to be Belle (or Beauty) from Beauty and the Beast and that was it. So out came the old dress. I took it apart and re-made it into this...
Here she is in action on the wet parade day...
We had to do a lot of layering underneath to keep her warm. Next year maybe we can do a character than involves an umbrella... probably good for this climate.
