Comments on: Proprieties and Usages of Good Society — Lesson III. Dress

By: Maurine

Maurine — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:43:27 +0000

Regarding post #5 by Alison, women in Utah were wearing hats to church into the 1950s. My grandmother wore a hat all the time at church in the early 1900s, as did her friends. I have several pictures of ward Sunday School groups where about half of the women had on hats. I even wore a hat quite often in the 1960s, even when I was playing the organ.

I laugh at the changes of correctness. My grandmother would never think of going to Salt Lake City to shop without her had and gloves on. Mother didn’t wear hat and gloves, but did wear a dress to go to Salt Lake City and insisted that I wear a dress and not pants. When my daughter and nieces came along, we had to remind them that they couldn’t wear shorts to go shopping in Salt Lake.

I have a lot of grandma’s hats and also some belonging to my aunt.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:01:55 +0000

My favorite was describing a short dress as one “at least two inches above the floor” and any girls showing an exposed elbow was a lost cause to morality.

Times change, huh?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:51:39 +0000

We shall draw a curtain (a green one) across your comment, Eric, and think about it tomorrow.

By: Eric Boysen

Eric Boysen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:32:38 +0000

Fiddle-de-dee!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:00:34 +0000

It made a horrible mental image, actually. Maybe not as bad in real life as in imagination. Memorable, though.

By: Mina

Mina — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:25:26 +0000

Wow Ardis! You remembered the yellow and lavender check second dress of Juanita!

By: kevinf

kevinf — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:11:11 +0000

Subtitle for today’s post:

Lawnapalooza!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:02:10 +0000

By: Moniker Challenged

Moniker Challenged — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:51:26 +0000

And they say dry parties are no fun.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:13:21 +0000

Moniker, I’m wearing a very tall, very white picture hat today, so you can try the vision trick using my chapeau as your white area. Then together we can watch Anne run around in her harmonious, tasteful costumes.