Suzie Homemaker
This year I dressed up as a 1950’s housewife. I decided to take along the Joy of Cooking as a prop.
The dress, in natural daylight, is a bright coral polyester that I got from a vintage shop, about 5 or 6 years ago, but this is the first time I’ve really worn it. It fits me pretty much perfectly, and I love the full skirt. The apron I got from my aunt who is one of those people who walks into a thrift shop and all the wonderful, authentic, mint-condition “finds” jump into her basket. My glasses are not exactly cat-eye glasses but I think they work with the whole outfit pretty well. I was rather proud of my hair, but you can’t really tell from the photo that it was puffed up on top into a sort of bouffant.
Oh, October, it’s so sad to see you go. We had such a lovely month of true fall – bright and crisp and not very cold, no rain to speak of, and that meant all the pretty leaves lasted all month long. With the turning back of the clocks came cold, rainy weather and the leaves were knocked from the trees by raindrops.
Katie you look great! I liked your costume. Wow those fall leaves are gorgeous!!
i was a 1950’s pregnant housewife one year, complete with a bottle of “sleeping pills” (tic tacs) and a martini- cuz you know, that’s how they did it back then…
Wasn’t that rain on Monday amazing?
Yeah – as I was leaving the knit group I was splashing thru inch-deep puddles in the middle of the parking lot, the rain was falling so hard it didn’t have time to drain away to the gutter. It never rains that hard here, it’s usually the constant drizzle. 🙂
Christie – sounds like you were the realistic one – I was going for more of the June-Cleaver-on-TV effect, and it worked: somebody at our church Harvest party said I looked like the model from her Home Ec textbook from when she was in middle school. 🙂