After reading Alessa's post (at farbenfreude.blogspot.com - I can't do links at the moment. My blogger interface is only showing half the usual buttons) with her photos of her family, I was inspired to respond with a few of my own. Mostly they are of my mum and my sister. As the eldest by a good few years there are lots of pics of my sister in the collection. My favourite is her red trousers summer outfit. I would like a pair of red trousers like that myself. I'd also like my mum's monochrome beach outfit in the top photo. 
These pictures were all slides, as my parents had a slide camera as a wedding present. The slides cover a period of about 6 years. Then I guess my dad got a film camera as the "normal" photo albums strart and the slides end. A few years ago I began getting my dad's slides put into digital format. I started printing them into book format for my dad when he was ill with dementia.
Oh and I am in one of these photis...guess which one? Clue: my love of red shoes started early.
Wonderful collection of photos with some great styles and colours_ against interesting backdrops too- lots of outdoor fun! ( Gary would hone in on the cars and no doubt would recognise them!) Im enjoying the coats, the posh outfits with hats and the contrast collar. Most of all I'm remembering also wearing things like the short bloomer suit with elasticated legs ! Id be.tempted to think you must be the baby, but no red shoes. I'm not very good at this game!!
ReplyDeleteThank you - my parents lived in the States when first married so some pics are from there. The funniest thing about the posh outfit post is the staring lady behind my mum - who WAS she?
DeleteWhat a lovely selection - I also love the coats. The turquoise dress with the pointy collar is very similar to one my mum had. How did you go about getting slides put into digital format? Almost all my dad's photos from the 60s and 70s are on slides and it's a bit of an effort to view them.
ReplyDeleteI think you're the girl on the beach in red trousers and shoes - or the one directly above!
Clare, I took the slides to Jessops who put them onto CD for me so then I uploaded them to my computer, it cost about £30 3 years ago and I stll have another bag of slides waiting till I have spare cash. The nice thing is the colours have lasted well and most photos from that time are black and white. A friend whose parents wedding was photographed in my dad's slides was really pleased as she hadn't seen pics of her parents at that age in colour before! You can buy a scanner that changes slides to digital but I decided we didnt have enough to make it worth the spend. I wish I was the girl in red trousers! I am the one above, crouching by the baby (my brother), x
DeleteThe coats are the bomb. You look loads like your mom. I wish I had such pictures, but alas, any surviving pictures will be thousands of miles away in Cameroon.
ReplyDeleteAh Dibs, that is a shame you cannot look at your old family photos. People say i look like my mum but I cannot see it myself! She was loads prettier than me!! (still is)
DeleteWonderful photos! I had red shoes too....going to look for the photos now :) xxx
ReplyDeleteAre we going to see your photos too Alex? I hope so.
DeleteOh so such lovely photos! Thanks for sharing them with us! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Solvi, I am glad you enjoyed them. I warn you, i have more!
DeleteLovely, lovely pictures! Thanks for sharing them! I like the red shoes, even the toddler version. ;-) And the "dressed up" picture with coats and hats and gloves is really fab.
ReplyDeleteThat dressed up picture was my dad's best friend's wedding. My mum, in the brown coat, was quite pregnant with my older brother. I wish she had kept more of these clothes.
DeleteMy love of red shoes started when I was little and there was a cine film of me somewhere just walking along aged about two or three just looking down at my red shoes all the time.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds so sweet. I still haven't grown out of that type of behaviour. It is hard to be sad when wearing red shoes. x
DeleteI had also meant to say that when I was little I was always told " red shoes no knickers" !!
DeleteHeh, I also still do that today. Although I can't even remember if I had red shoes as a little girl. I think I was of the generation of mostly sneakers apart from one pair of black patent leather mary-janes...
DeleteWhat lovely pictures, they are so evocative of that time! I love the photo taken on the little boat with your mum in the stripes and I can't take my eyes off the bronze coat which is so like the cut and shape of my green one!
ReplyDeleteThank you Rachel. I wish we still had that bronze coat! It is like your green one - I hadn't noticed before.
DeleteSquee!!! You were so adorable!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. They evoke such a strong sense of time and place. If only we were so classy these days! I'd hate to think how my children will define this decade's fashion: "Trying (and failing) to walk the line between fabulous and terrible."
Jessica, you make me smile, but you are right, we just don't look so classy nowadays. I think my mum despaired of me and my sister and how scruffy we were. I like the quote.
DeleteAh yes - so familiar! My dad had a slide phase too - it was the same camera, it just had a different sort of film that he used to send off and it came back as boxes of slides. I had some printed off as photos a few years back, and have since scanned some of those to make digital versions.
ReplyDeleteIt's so interesting seeing the family resemblances in these photos. Your mom looks so sophisticated in that beach outfit ! The color on these slides is so much better that the photographs from the time period. I wonder sometimes if sewing nice clothes has more to do with a desire to recreate the classiness of our mothers' generation than with a desire to look fashionable?
ReplyDeleteI love these! I was so inspired by Alessa's post too -- and I'm so excited to see bloggers adding images of real women with real bodies doing real every-day stuff in vintage clothes. These clothes are so classy but simple -- a silhouette goes a long way, a beautiful coat, a lovely dress -- that's all you need!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these! They're so sweet! The toddler outfits are unbearably cute!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, look at those coats and hats, collars and dresses, and that cute little red bathing costume! :) And the hair! I enjoy seeing photos from different times so much, these "natural" ones of someone's real family or friends even more than the celebrity shots you get to see in the media. And yes, my dad also had a "slide-phase"...
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Debbie! :)
Wow! what a fantastic collection of photos. Great idea too (might put some of my own up). Some really glam ones too. If only our mums had saved all those clothes right? We could be going around looking like an extra from Bewitched :)
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