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The Family Kalamazoo 
Luanne, photo of grandpa on right is a rocking horse chair.
It might be! After all, there are rockers down there, I’m almost certain about that!
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I’m interested to see that your Grandpa is also dressed in girls’ clothing. I thought it might have just been an English custom. My Dad is in a little kilt in the photo on December 15th’s post.
He was dressed in girls’ clothing for the first few years of his life. I believe that was the norm, even in the U.S. In fact, I think it was that way from the beginning, when the United States was merely colonies. I remember learning that years ago. And I also remember Grandpa and Grandma explaining that he was dressed as a girl the first few years. Your dad looks adorable in that kilt! Great blog, Anne!
Thank you. I am enjoying finding other, similar, blogs. It’s interesting to read about other people’s families and it’s obvious that family means so much to all the people who write them.
So true about what family means!
Luanne, I understand why you say ‘dressed in girl’s clothing’, but these are very much dresses for a boy (apart from the two when he was very young, when the garments were more alike for both genders). Boys’ dresses were often brighter in colour, had chunkier accessories (large buttons, buckled belts etc) and many had pleats and facings rather than the gathers and frills a girls would have.
So interesting to examine the details that way. Thank you, Noreen!
I have a photo of my mum and her male cousin on my blog, take in the spring of 1922. Both of them are wearing dresses. Before rubber (plastic) pants and disposable diapers both boys and girls wore dresses until they were dry. A lot easier to pull up the dress and sit them down on the diaper, than to have to charge the little dumplings from the skin out several times a day. Also, people simply didn’t have the money to buy new wardrobes a new baby. You used what you had. The way we dress children today would have astounded our grandparents!
I’m sure it would surprise them. Especially the lack of baby bonnets!