This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt shows a crowd of boys
hovering around a game of marbles. A good game of marbles can get rather
heated. And so can those socks.
The socks worn by the boys in the photo were surely
heavier and hotter than what the boys in my photos wore. There is nothing
particularly interesting about the socks, but the photos themselves are rather
good.
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| John Clifton Holland son of my grandaunt Mae Killeen Holland |
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| Unknown child but photo was among those belonging to my grandaunt Helen Killeen Parker |
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| If this picture dates to the 1890s, then I would guess the boys are John and Matthew Glynn, cousins of my grandaunts Helen and Mae |
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| My granny Julia and her sister Catherine 1920 |
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| Me about age 12 |
Granny was a sock wearer even into her granny years.
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| My granny 1952 - she laughed about this pose |
In the 1940s when my mother was in high school, the
rolled bobby socks was the look to sport.
The girls achieved that fullness with
an extra sock in the roll. My mother and her friends teased Joanne Palmer (on the left) for wearing
her boyfriend’s dark socks. I never learned why she did that.
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| Joanne Palmer, Mary E. Davis (my mother), Betsy Ward, Unknown, Cookie Spencer |
Grab your lucky socks and knuckle down at Sepia Saturday.
© 2016, Wendy Mathias.
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I do agree; I think you do have your grandmother's legs! Can you imagine boys wearing clothes like this these days? I happen to like the look, especially the socks!
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Lucky you to inherit those legs...I got telegraph poles - absolutely no shape or definition. You have reminded me that I must get back to knitting socks for my godfather.
ReplyDeleteSome great old portraits - I especially like the adorable photo of the unknown boy with the old tricycle - now to figure out who he might be!
ReplyDeleteGreat images - not only did they bring the memory of my school socks flooding back, but the prickly woolly feel of them and the way they would fall down my short-trousered legs.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I have never really noticed socks in my ancestor photos. Again, you have some unbelievably fantastic photos, Wendy!
ReplyDeleteLovely to have so many old photographs of your mother and her cousins. Do you mean the girls wore two pairs of socks just for the roll effect? Their socks only just made it into the picture :-)
ReplyDeleteI love your sock post. Wonderful old photography. I loved the time of Rock'n Roll. Bobby socks and circular skirts, the best look ever.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the picture of you around the age of 12 in your white socks & (Mary Janes?), it brought back a memory of me at the same age posing in my new Easter dress & wearing socks with black patent sandals. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat socks! I'm impressed with your many generations of socked feet. I doubt I could find even one ancestor's photo showing socks, saggy or otherwise.
ReplyDeleteWell I eat my words - I told Gail I thought she'd be the only one with socks as a theme! Wonderful photos and oh, that granny-pose!
ReplyDeleteI still have socks, though I never wear them. Strangely as my mother got older she stopped wearing socks. I'd tell her she should put them on to keep warm, but she never did. Now I am following in her sock steps and abhor wearing them. I'd never thought socks were genetic. Do you still wear them like your grandmother?
ReplyDeleteNow my mission will be to look at the socks in all of my photos. Great post!
ReplyDeleteSo funny and something I've never paid any attention to, but I surely will be checking out the socks in my old pictures now!
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