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Dorothy V

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12. Depended on where Dad was stationed.

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 10:54 PM

Mar 25

When we were at Phalsbourg, we'd go to the big BX at Metz, which put a lot of major department stores to shame. At George, Thom McAn for shoes and Fedco for everything else. At Williams, Penney's, and at Hill, Sears.
Mom made a lot of my dresses, but my Easter outfits were always storebought. Looking back, the dresses Mom made were every bit as nice as storebought clothes. They never looked homemade. She was that good. I still have her sewing machine. It is a 1923 Singer that had an electric motor put on it in 1947.
Remember the fabric sections in the old wishbooks? The only pages in color. I loved looking over the fabrics with Mom. Happy Days!

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When you were a kid, what store/stores that is/ are no more did you get your Easter outfit from? shoes were from Bakers [View all] debm55 Mar 25 OP

Was Bakers the one with the X-ray machine? Biophilic Mar 25 #1

The one I went to didn't have the machine. They used the metal thing. debm55 Mar 25 #4

I remember the x-ray machines for shoes Walleye Mar 25 #6

MayCo enid602 Mar 25 #2

"Easter outfit" Skittles Mar 25 #3

Hi Skittles, I was an outfit, I would wear to church and then to grandparents for dinner. Shoes, dress, hat, gloves. debm55 Mar 25 #7

ahhhhhhhh Skittles Mar 25 #13

We had sort of an upscale women's clothing store named Emmanuel's Walleye Mar 25 #5

Montgomery Wards or Sears. sinkingfeeling Mar 25 #8

Baker's for shoes and Alexander's in Springfield for everything else dai13sy Mar 25 #9

Shoes from The Shoe Box; USAF Brat Mar 25 #10

Almart , Sears, Bambergers, Wanamaker's, or woodsprite Mar 25 #11

Depended on where Dad was stationed. Dorothy V Mar 25 #12