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Post by Honeybee on Aug 25, 2012 0:15:09 GMT -5
You can't tell, if they were flour or feedsack. When the girls wore those kind of dress, back in the 30's.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2012 7:13:27 GMT -5
I just watched an episode of the first season of the Brady Bunch and they have Cindy wearing the same type of short dress as Elizabeth wore. Just too much skin.
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Post by dahill on Aug 28, 2012 6:53:15 GMT -5
All little girls had dress that short, it was the style for the 30's. Even Erin had a few short dresses in the early seasons. Girls typically did not wear longer dress/skirts until the early teens. Elizabeth was in her jean phase when she became too tall for short dress, but was not quite old enough for the "adult" dress.
As for John-boys dirty pants. I don't think they were dirty as much as they were stained from use. My Dad grew up in the 30's on a farm. He said they wore the same outer clothing for 3-4 days, as laundry was done by hand and took longer and was harsher on clothing. So maybe they wanted to reflect this in the show.
I must say, this show more than any other (before or since) have stayed true to the period, in all aspects of it. Clothing, autos, food, sickness (and treatments). It's one of the things I love about it.
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 28, 2012 7:21:23 GMT -5
All little girls had dress that short, it was the style for the 30's. Even Erin had a few short dresses in the early seasons. Girls typically did not wear longer dress/skirts until the early teens. Elizabeth was in her jean phase when she became too tall for short dress, but was not quite old enough for the "adult" dress. As for John-boys dirty pants. I don't think they were dirty as much as they were stained from use. My Dad grew up in the 30's on a farm. He said they wore the same outer clothing for 3-4 days, as laundry was done by hand and took longer and was harsher on clothing. So maybe they wanted to reflect this in the show. I must say, this show more than any other (before or since) have stayed true to the period, in all aspects of it. Clothing, autos, food, sickness (and treatments). It's one of the things I love about it. Good explanations -- thanks. The only thing I have a problem is the whole "jeans" question..... it always surprises me to see anyone wearing jeans on The Waltons. They just weren't widely in use back then, except when VERY STRONG wear was required on a daily basis, like overalls worn while working in the sawmill, breaking horses on a ranch, or if seriously farming.... On The Waltons, we didn't see them much on the girls especially, until later episodes ... and maybe WWII had something to do with that.... the whole Rosie the Rivetter thing ?..... Also, during the filming of The Waltons jeans were just then becoming a "fad" (we thought!) I know you younger folks out there can't imagine a world without jeans! I got my first pair when I was about ten, and then I was the only one I knew who had them! It was for a camping trip..... All the photos we have prior to that -- of my sisters and me playing on the grandfolks' farm -- show us in dresses! I believe it was the folk music / hippie era that brought on the popularity of jeans. Even kids from wealthy families wanted to look deprived !! How silly that young people actually worked at making them look old and used !!!
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Post by dahill on Aug 28, 2012 7:49:46 GMT -5
Haha, my Dad still call his jeans "denims". Most boys wore knickers during this period, some farm boys may have a pair of jean or heavy cloth pants for farm work.
I think one to appeal to younger viewer at the time, plus the growth spurts happing to all the kids may be why they mostly wore jeans.
Jeans became popular after James Dean wore them in "Rebel Without a Cause", back in 1955. By the 60's most kids had at least one pair. Funny note tho, most schools did not allow jeans or sneakers to be worn until the late 60's early 70's.
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 28, 2012 8:01:45 GMT -5
Haha, my Dad still call his jeans "denims". Most boys wore knickers during this period, some farm boys may have a pair of jean or heavy cloth pants for farm work. I think one to appeal to younger viewer at the time, plus the growth spurts happing to all the kids may be why they mostly wore jeans. Jeans became popular after James Dean wore them in "Rebel Without a Cause", back in 1955. By the 60's most kids had at least one pair. Funny note tho, most schools did not allow jeans or sneakers to be worn until the late 60's early 70's. Oh, yeah -- I forgot -- for years, they were called dungarees in my corner of the world! I just realized recently where the "dung" came from !!! My folks moved away from our school system in 1969 (I was long gone at that time) -- and jeans were still not permitted. Girls couldn't wear any type of pants/slacks -- only skirts. Sneakers? NEVER ! Any shirt/top must have a collar (i.e., no tee-shirts). Guys mostly wore what were called "chinos" (now called dockers, I guess....) I believe we were better behaved, having to follow certain rules -- kept us in line somehow....
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Post by missnathalivintage on Aug 29, 2012 17:39:47 GMT -5
I still do not under stand why they would leave the dresses so short. If I remember reading correctly did'nt the dresses back then have a longer hem. So the dress can be let down. Then again I remember the Country Girls episode on little house on the prairie where Laura and Mary went to school with short dresses and Caroline stating that was as far as those hems would go.
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 29, 2012 18:51:07 GMT -5
I still do not under stand why they would leave the dresses so short. If I remember reading correctly did'nt the dresses back then have a longer hem. So the dress can be let down. Then again I remember the Country Girls episode on little house on the prairie where Laura and Mary went to school with short dresses and Caroline stating that was as far as those hems would go. I think it depends on what part of the dress's "cycle" we're in..... It could possibly reach a point where they keep having to chop some off the bottom once it has started fraying !!! Are we really talking about this
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Post by sambda on Sept 4, 2012 5:22:03 GMT -5
Haha, my Dad still call his jeans "denims". Most boys wore knickers during this period, some farm boys may have a pair of jean or heavy cloth pants for farm work. I think one to appeal to younger viewer at the time, plus the growth spurts happing to all the kids may be why they mostly wore jeans. Jeans became popular after James Dean wore them in "Rebel Without a Cause", back in 1955. By the 60's most kids had at least one pair. Funny note tho, most schools did not allow jeans or sneakers to be worn until the late 60's early 70's. Oh, yeah -- I forgot -- for years, they were called dungarees in my corner of the world! I just realized recently where the "dung" came from !!! Interesting that just straight jeans (the pants) are called dungarees over there. In Britain, dungarees are the bib-and-braces things, in denim, like Grandpa wears - not just the trousers alone.
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Post by maxwalton on Sept 4, 2012 7:56:49 GMT -5
Interesting how this topic keeps getting bumped up. My mother is Walton age (born in 1925) and says the skirts were usually knee high but, they did wear cut-off boy's pants as shorts. She says the shorts were usually old army pants. Btw, she still calls my Levi's 505s "dungarees."
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