Friday, January 9, 2009
Random Thoughts
You know how in cartoons and comic strips, when the writer wants to show someone down on their luck and they will show him (it's always a "him") dressed in a barrel? A rain barrel with leg holes and usually little suspenders to hold it up. Did anyone ever actually have to wear a barrel? Who's idea was that? Seems less comfortable than a burlap sack, which my mom used to threaten me with when I would complain about my clothes as a teenager. She claims she wore clothes made from potato sacks. Those sacks must have been more sturdy than the Lay's bag I have in my pantry. One day, Anna decided to dress herself and put on a pair of Mary's outgrown cotton capri pants. They were pink and had flowers on them, so that was good enough for her. The waist was elastic, so even though they were a little bit too loose, the length was just right. She paired the pants with a cute top that has a turtle embroidered on it. The turtle has a flower tucked behind its ear (I know! What ear!) and therefore match the pants. She went stylin' to the neighbor's house to trampoline bounce for a while. You know as well as I do that her pants fell down every other jump, right? At least she wasn't wearing a barrel or a potato sack. But still....
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I wore feed sack dresses that my grandmother made. The material came on feed, and flour. My dresses were mostly from the flour sacks (big sacks of flour. The material was very soft nice cotton and I remember loving the way the cotton felt so soft. Always was a play sort of dress. A nice way to recycle don't you think? The when we had outgrown the clothes we would pass them down to someone else or grandma would cut them up to make quilts or doll clothes or dish rags.. No fabric square went wasted unless it absolutely could not be used. No wonder our society is in so much trouble.
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