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Title: Vintage girls clothing (gallery)
Post by: Betty on May 14, 2015, 11:38:34 PM
I've been gathering up pix of vintage girls clothing from the past that don't exist anymore. You know, the stuff that caught our eye as kids & got us stuck on this hobby.

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Post by: sissybaby34 on May 15, 2015, 06:08:08 AM
Everyone of those are pressing all my buttons! In those days young girls were dressed as girls and not just small versions of adults.
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Post by: Betty on May 15, 2015, 11:34:29 AM
Oh yes, all the stuff we loved as kids before they decided to dress girls very plain, or almost like boys, or like whores.

They call it "modern fashion" to make a dress that looks like a sack or pillow case with holes cut into it for your head & arms. Some are even worse than that where the dress is nothing more than a tube of cloth with a pair of strings attached to hang it on your shoulders.

Bullshit! It's nothing more than making clothes as cheap as possible but still charge the same price by calling it modern fashion. To have no frills, show more bare skin means they spend less on the material & less time to make them.

Interestingly just about the time European & American stores stopped carrying almost anything frilly, & fancy was almost the exact time the lucrative & popular Japanese Lolita fashions in Asia became very popular, & Chinese manufacturers started mass-producing them. The Lolita fashion trend in Asia has now spread into wedding & children's wear too.

While western companies & stores decided to abandon frilly & fancy styles that many people still loved (not just sissies), Asian companies decided to fill the gap by producing tons of them for the countless around the world that still wanted them.

The Chinese companies are shipping much more of these styles to the west than selling them in Japan & China. Most of these companies had on online presence to sell these worldwide & ship them cheap or free as soon as they started mass-producing them. It seems as if they knew that as soon as the west dropped all frilly & fancy stuff that the world would buy them from anywhere else they could find them.

A simple online image search of Lolita & sissy pictures, show the vast majority of them are clearly wearing the Chinese designed & produced Lolita styles these days.

One can't even find very frilly stuff in western niche markets anymore, like country-western, square dance, clogging shops. These were formerly the last stronghold of frilly stuff in the west.

One can still find some frilly stuff in pageant shops for girls, if you can actually find a size in something frilly that can barely fit a small adult. But even in the girls pageant shops, they're nothing like they used to be. The outfits are almost all sleeveless, or back-less, with low necklines to expose as much skin as possible.

Girls pageant, wedding, & communion wear used to be the ultimate in frilly stuff, but even they have cut back on the frills, & getting plainer.
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Post by: Betty on May 15, 2015, 11:39:27 AM
BTW, I have about 400 pix to put on this gallery. A little bit for everybody. It's not done yet. So come back soon to see more.
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Post by: Sisiam on May 15, 2015, 03:39:17 PM
Great pics, Betty.  Thank you.  The new Vermont Country Store catalog (available on line) has adult "babydoll" pjs with bloomer panties in pink or floral.  A really cute style from days gone by.  Maybe the good old styles will come back for both women and girls.
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Post by: Betty on May 15, 2015, 04:04:05 PM
One can only hope, or at least write to those who still make cool outfits to compliment & encourage them.

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The red swimsuit below is identical to a yellow one I tried on as a kid. It was only about the 4th or 5th girls clothing I ever tried on at the time. At the age of about 7, a red & blue sailor dress was the first dress I ever put on but I had already experimented trying on tights, & a pretty frilly butterfly print girls bubble swimsuit, & the yellow bubble swimsuit before that. I was born premature & small for my age, so my baby sister, 3 years younger was actually slightly taller than me. So her toddler girls stuff fit me.
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Post by: Robyn Jodie on May 16, 2015, 12:01:10 PM
Betty,
I agree 100% with your earlier comments.  I keep wondering why it became "in" for little girls to look "sexy" rather than "cute"?  Because they don't really -- theirs is a travesty of adult sexiness.

(Unrelated but possibly interesting:
"travesty" comes from the word French for "transvestism."  I wasn't thinking of that when I made the above comment, but seeing the word reminded me.)
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Post by: Angela M... on May 18, 2015, 08:19:40 PM
Betty,
somewhere I have scrap books of pretty girls wearing all the wonderful clothes I wanted when I was younger, but if I found them I would not know how to post them here. As they are grouped together in the albums I would need to scan a whole page I suppose and I am not even sure what condition they are in as I have not looked at them for years. I started cutting pictures out of catalogs and magazines when I was about 11 and continued most of my life. Some were taken from foreign catalogs on my travels and magazines on planes or trains so there are some very pretty Italian and French girls in some pics.
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Post by: Betty on May 19, 2015, 12:26:43 AM
Back when I got a super-VHS 400p video camera, I made still pictures of everything in my "scrapbooks" onto super-VHS tape. Later when I got a digital camera, I took digital pix of everything in the scrapbooks too. I saved them on CDs, & a hard drive in the days before they had burnable DVDs.

Once I got a DVD burner, I copied all pix & crucial files onto DVDs. DVDs will last longer & handle more abuse than CDs. Heat can ruin the data on a CD or hard drive before it will on DVD (but it's not a good idea to get a DVD too hot either). The reflective coating on the back of a CD can get scratched off or peel away with age, high humidity, or getting it wet for a while. DVDs are sealed with an acrylic or polymer protective coating on both sides. Even if they get scratched up to the point they won't play, you can buff out the scratches or fill them in with a repair finish.

It was a good thing too. All my "scrapbooks" & CDs were lost in the fire. But almost all of my DVDs & hard drives still worked. Some of the CDs didn't even get hot, just very wet, so the reflective backing chipped or peeled away or was damaged. A friend of mine left a considerably large CD collection in his hot car parked in the hot sun, only to find none of them would play anymore.

I was lucky with some of my videotape too. Many of them were stored at my downtown office during the fire so survived.

If you have a decent camera with a macro/closeup lens on it, just take a picture of the picture. Then you can crop, sharpen, adjust the color &  contrast with free irfanview. Don't use a flash with extreme closeups or the glare of the flash will overwhelm the picture. Most magazine & catalog pix are on glossy paper, so you'll get more a picture of the reflection of the flash than of the picture.

It best to use a light off to the side where the reflection & glare of the light won't show in the viewfinder. It should be a white light like from fluorescent or LED source, or a window.

On simple point & shoot  or phone cameras, they'll get out of focus if you get too close. So just like you may need reading to see small stuff up close, so will the phone or camera. Just put one side of reading glasses or good magnifying glass over the lens to get a clear shot of something very close. You might have to experiment with a few pix to get it just right. I always try to take more that one picture of everything in case one doesn't come out well. You can't always tell there was a problem from the viewfinder, until it displays on a big screen.

Keep a steady hand. Hand jitter will blur the picture on closeups as bad as they will with zoom/telephoto lenses.

If your phone or camera has a sports or action setting, it will be more forgiving to jitter blur because of the faster shutter/scan speed. But those settings usually require more light, or they'll be too dark. If it's just a little dark, you can brighten it later with irfanview.

When the picture is ready to post, just scroll down to the bottom of the text posting area, & click on browse. Your computer will display all the folders the pictures may be in. It will also display any phone or camera plugged into the computer as a folder or external drive.

Click on the folder the picture is in, then click on the picture. When you press post it will load with your post. If you goof, you can go back, edit your post, & try again.

If you're not sure what folder the pictures are in your phone, just google the model to find out.

Here's a close up, I just made of my computer screen using my old Samsung phone, using reading glasses over the lens to get close. These older Samsungs don't take good quality pix, but it didn't come out too bad. The horizontal lines are an artifact caused by the screen's refresh/scan rate being much faster that the phones shutter/scan speed. You wouldn't have those problem taking a picture of a picture on paper.
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Post by: Angela M... on May 19, 2015, 03:38:35 PM
Hey Betty,
right now I have an old Samsung phone and it does not take good pics but I am in the market for a new phone as the Samsung is failing and it is hard to text with it. It seems that everybody texts me these days instead of calling and when I am in the car I get a text that shows as a call but when I go to read it the car just phones the number. I need to check with the dealer to see if it is set up correctly.
 Anyway when I get a new phone I will try to follow your instructions because I would love to share my collection with you and our other friends here. I remember some of the photos of the dresses were so beautiful it would almost make me cry that I could never wear something like that. I am pretty sure they are hidden in my workshop as that is where I keep my "girl clothes and tights and shoes". I have two very good older model 35 mm cameras but I can't get film anymore so they are just display models on the shelves in my office.
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Post by: Angela M... on May 19, 2015, 03:46:40 PM
I almost feel like writing to Minolta to ask if there is not some kind of digital module that could be added to older cameras so they can take digital pics. Would be a good invention for somebody with the skills because I see hundreds of these cameras at yard sales and flea markets and decorators use them as props on shelving units in model homes. I suppose if it were possible somebody would have done it by now but who knows. My camera equipment cost me hundreds of dollars back in the day and I would do portraits and some weddings when I was much younger. Funny, I always seemed to focus a lot on the brides dresses and the flower girls and bridesmaids too. Just jealous I guess.
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Post by: Betty on May 19, 2015, 06:24:54 PM
The most expensive thing in those old cameras what the optics. Most of the optics on those would fit on digital versions of the same or similar brands, or can be easily adapted to them. The rest of the camera is just the shutter mechanism, flash, film winding, the electronics to run them, & a shell to hold it all... all pretty cheap compared to the optics.

My first digital camera I got for my birthday in the late 1990s. It was an HP that listed for around $120. It's my best digital camera, but except for phone cameras, it's also my only digital camera. It takes excellent HD pictures too. I had a Cannon film camera worth over $200 but was lost in the fire. The HP got covered with soot & very wet from the fire, but after I cleaned it out, & dried it out, it worked fine.

My most expensive camera is a super-VHS video camera that listed for $799. I got it on a close-out sale for a little under $400 for work. I also have a 8mm tape video camera that was worth around $500 new as a display model for around $200 for work. Both were in a solid case during the fire & only suffered minor damage, so I repaired them. I don't use them anymore though.

Both recorded 400p video, that's practically DVD quality, & a far jump up in quality of 240p for ordinary VHS. Also at the time, before digital broadcast TV, it was better than the 300-360p video American broadcast TV was transmitting most of the time.

The only time American TV broadcasted anything back then near 400p was for a big football game, other headliner sports, or very special big events.

Before my sister got forced into early retirement because of leg problems she got a really expensive Cannon digital camera worth around $700. God forbid if anything happened to it. She couldn't afford to replace it or pay for big repairs on it these days.
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Post by: Angela M... on May 21, 2015, 10:09:00 PM
Hey Betty,
I have a long bank of upper cupboards in my workshop and for one reason or another I have not opened them in awhile until you posted about Vintage girls clothing and then I remembered about the pics I had collected. I opened them today and sorted through stacks of magazine clippings and scrap books. I even found a box with a collection of girls picture books on Figure Skating, Ballet and Gymnastics. Looking through these brought back memories of my youth and my short lived figure skating career. I never quite got good enough for competition and I really wanted to take Ballet anyway so I was always trying to find ways to make that happen. I would often borrow my sisters panties, tights and short skirts and practice my Ballet moves and secretly bought my own Ballet leotard that I kept in a box under my dresser along with a pair of pink Ballet tights. Of course they were a Birthday gift for my sister, I told the sales lady as she smiled a knowing smile at me. I am sure I blushed so she would think they were really for me. When I find a way to copy these pictures and magazine clippings I will ask your advice again on how to post here so you all can share some of my treasures.
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Post by: Angela M... on May 21, 2015, 10:36:55 PM
Hey Betty, another collection I found was a bag full of the boxes,cards and packaging that most of my panty collection came wrapped in as well as a bag full of the display cards that most of my plastic panty collection were mounted to and plastic bags from 6 packs of Gerber baby pants that I had a fondness for when younger. These cupboards are a veritable time capsule of my younger days going back to the 60's. I may be getting older but looking at some of the panty packages and I could remember the store and the city and the vacation where they came from. In some cases I still have some of the panties also even though they were girls sizes. Of course I have not been able to wear them for some time but I kept most items in perfect condition. Some of my favorites are a three pack of cotton panties from Sears with ruffled leg openings in pink, lilac and yellow that I fell in love with in a store in Burlington, Vermont and even though they were girls size 14/16, they fit me very well for a few years and I still have them. I also have about 10 pairs of girls soft white cotton panties with a tiny rosebud pattern that were a trademark of the T.Eaton stores in Canada. I remember buying them on a trip to Winnipeg, Manitoba one summer and they were very comfortable to wear in the hot weather. I bought more later on while in Toronto and wore them to work most of the time as they fit great and were very comfortable. They reminded me of the school girl knickers I bought in England but with the pattern I loved so much. The ones from England were navy, white or bottle green as they called it.
Does anybody else have collections or memories of things they bought to wear through the years or am I the only one having flash backs of my youth?   
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Post by: Angela M... on May 21, 2015, 10:58:56 PM
Last fall I was looking through an Antique Warehouse that I have not been to for ages and I spent the better part of three hours looking in boxes and bins and even on vintage clothing racks. I was mainly looking for anything with a Nautical theme as I started redecorating my home office and my main item to search for was any old vintage ocean liner posters from the fifties as I had seen one in a magazine for the Empress of Ireland and I was hoping to find one for the Empress of Britain, the ship I came to Canada on in 1957. I had no luck there but did find a rack with some fifties clothing and came across a nice lacy 50's girls  crinoline. It was in good shape and had a tag that I couldn't read too well but looked like it would fit me so I bought it along with a little camisole and ruffled panty set. When I got home I was happy to discover that the crinoline fit but the other set was too small. I only paid $5.00 for the crinoline and $8.00 for the set and I think I may frame the set in a shadow box and re-sell it. I would like to keep it but have nowhere to hang it discretely so it may go in the end. I need to go back sometime and look for more treasures and my ocean liner poster.
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Post by: Betty on May 22, 2015, 11:32:39 AM
I'm lucky in some respects that almost all the pix & sissy pix that I had digitized survived the fire. With bragging about thousands of sissy pix, people think I have all sorts of pix of sissies dressing up.

But being a crossdresser, most of the images are of outfits not sissies. The ones where if they're worn by anyone, they're usually girls. About 9 years ago a Seagate drive that came with a computer failed, & I lost everything on it. But because I backed up a lot onto DVDs at the time, I only lost some of what I accumulated over a little more than a year, & many of them weren't sissy pix anyway.

For instance, all my 50th birthday party pix were lost because they weren't backed up yet. It was special for my 50th, & a pretty big event, with some very touching moment photographed. Some of the people there aren't even alive anymore. It a shame I didn't back them up. Almost all the DVDs & hard drives survived the fire.

Since then, it's only Western digital drives for me. Even when they start to wear down after years of constant use, I can still get my data off of them & use them if I have to.

I have a 12 year old 250bg WD USB drive that got accidentally dropped. Since then it may take several tries to write data on it & it writes slower now, but it still reads the data fine on the first try.

The WD drives in my PC & laptop are 10 y/o too. They read & write a bit slower now. I have to get new drives for them soon. A drive will get bad clusters here & there after just a year or so. A good drive & it's electronics will write instructions before the bad cluster to skip over it. A bad cluster of a few KB here & there skipped won't be noticeable on a drive with many GB on it. But when the drive gets old & has quite a few bad clusters, it takes more time to read the instructions to skip those clusters.

Also when drive get old, the motor, & drive bearings get wear out. This causes vibration at high speeds, which can cause read & write errors. A good drive will sense this & try to read or write at a slower speed, until it finds a speed that still works.

I got a few USB drives now. All of them I got used, broken, defective, or worn. Most USB hard drives have 2.5" laptop drives in them. So I carefully cracked open my 250gb WD USB drive, slid out the laptop drive, & slide in the defective drives in the case. Using the WD electronics, & WD drivers, I was able to get them all running fine... at reduced write speeds.

So I leave the old WD USB case open, & slide the drives in & out of it as needed. 3, 1TB drives read at full speed, but only write at USB 1 speeds. It tries to start writing at full speed, but as soon as the WD electronics & drivers discovers it can't do that reliably, it slows it down enough so it works. So all the fuss was worth it for an extra 3TB of storage space. A 4.7gb DVD can only use about 4.5gb most of the time. So 3TB of drives can hold 667 DVDs.

Of course DVDs & blu-ray is obsolete as most people save their TV & movies in mp4 or MKV format these days. You can fit 4-6 HDTV movies in mp4 or MKV on a single 4.7gb DVD.

There's also a 500gb laptop drive I got going too. But it is only reliable as my old 250gb one. It may take several tries to get it to write a file if it's a large one. So I use them to save TV & radio shows I want to save for a short time, but not to keep permanently.

The best reliable, longest lasting drives are Western Digital. It's not just that the mechanism is built better, but the design of the electronics & drivers make them more reliable too. Granted, if you drop one, or it was banged around during shipping, it might be bad. But they even take more abuse than others too.

All the hype is solid state drives now. Because of their high read/write speed, they can really boost performance. The problem is they have been know to fail or mysteriously loose data. Static charges, & power surges wreak havoc on them too. So I wouldn't use them to save crucial data that can't be lost. Also the life expectancy of them is only 2-4 years... and when they fail, you loose everything. A good mechanical drive can last 10-20 years.

A 7200rpm mechanical drive with a decent sized buffer built in, is just as fast as most of the affordable solid state drives on the market. a 10,000rpm mechanical drive with a good buffer is faster than any solid state drive.

And speed is relative to how fast your computer is actually capable of sending data in & out of the drive. It makes no sense to get a drive or other components faster than what the machine can process. Why spend thousands on tires capable of handling 300mph if your car can't go much over 100mph?

SSDs for fast gaming, multitasking, & media processing (converting/editing etc) with low power consumption on a new fast multi-core computer? Yes!

For reliably processing, saving, archiving data & many years of use? No. It's not ready for that yet.
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Love the photo's Betty, the outfits remind me of the things my sister would wear in the 50's and 60' and of course I would try them on when nobody was home. I remember looking in the charity box my mom would set aside for the clothes we out grew and taking some of my sisters things that I could squeeze into and hiding them. I would also look in the Lost & Found Box at the local laundramat where the caretaker would open the door early for me so I could fold the morning newspapers out of the weather before delivering them. That is where I found my first pair of plastic baby pants and stuffed them in my pocket. Not sure why at the time but I had an interest when my mothers friends would come over and change their babies and leave plastic panties to dry in the bathroom. Of course they were too small for me as were the pair I found in the box the first time but I did find more later on and finally found a pair that were Extra Large. I was in heaven when I got home and could try them on and they fit me. I was running my hands over them when mom knocked on the bedroom door and told me I would be late for school,. On went my pants and I dashed off to school  with my heart racing. What if somebody at school discovered my secret? It just added to the excitement and I was on edge all morning. The elastic leg bands proved too tight and by lunch time I had to run home and change but I was excited all morning wearing them.
My favorite outfit of my sisters in summer was a little short skirt with panties attached and on seeing an old photo of that outfit recently it brought back all the old feelings again. I guess that is like your photo's also. Thanks for taking time to post them all.
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Post by: Betty on June 10, 2015, 10:53:51 PM
Panties with an attached skirt used to be called scooters around here, where a skort was a pair of extra wide shorts where the leg parts are so wide they can be mistaken as a skirt. In the 60s-70s & in some areas skorts may also be called culottes.

But these days stores mix up the term. Online store pictures do not always clearly show whether it has separate legs of very wide shorts, or is actually a skirt or has an attached panty underneath. So when buying a skort or scooter online, there's no telling what you get these days unless the picture clearly shows the difference, or there's a description clearly telling you they are extra baggy wide shorts, or are a skirt with an attached panty.

Most stores seem to not have a clue which is which, or their definitions vary from store to store, area they're located, or how old the manager is.
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Post by: Angela M... on June 11, 2015, 12:16:33 AM
Hey Betty,
that's the term I was looking for scooter skirts. My sister had several and later on in the early 70's the girls around here were wearing short sassy nylon dresses with little panties underneath. I remember a neighbor girl wearing them and I fell in love with the dresses and her. When I would see them on the clothesline (remember those) I would sneak over after dark and if they were still there I would grab them and hide in my basement and try them on. I did this with quite a few of their clothes as there were four girls living there and an endless supply of clothing on the line. This was where I got to try a nice two piece bathing suit in royal blue nylon that was there quite often in the summer. When the girl had it on my attention was grabbed right away as it was very tight and showed off the budding figure of a teenage girl. I watched them run through the sprinkler many afternoons when I was home knowing I may get to wear it again in the evening. Later on I managed to get it for myself after my mom got a box of clothes from them for the church charity box. As she had me take the box over to the church I was able to take anything out that I liked and would fit me and I got some nice tights and a skirt as well as the bathing suit.
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Post by: Angela M... on June 11, 2015, 11:04:52 PM
So many dresses, so little time.
Thanks again for all the wonderful pics, I think girls are so lucky to be able to wear such wonderful creations. Too bad many of them don't bother.  I must say that I am seeing more young girls about the age of 7 or 8 wearing dresses and skirts a bit more often these days and stores like Children's Place carry some wonderful dresses. Another shop is Justice where I go when I am buying for my niece's. I do like spring when there are more girls looking for First Communion dresses and I always wanted one of them myself. I remember trying on my sisters once and almost getting caught because I had done almost all of the buttons up. Not easy to get out of in a hurry, don't know what I was thinking at the time. I was wearing the white tights and lace trimmed panties also but I could hide them under my clothes when I had to but getting out of the dress in a hurry almost gave me a heart attack.
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Oh yes. In the old days, a lot of them were botton-backs, instead of zipper backs. Not exactly something you can get in & out of in a hurry.

As you get in a panicked race to quickly get out of them because someone is coming, you're heart beats so fast it is almost like a heart attack. The terror of almost getting caught left your heart beating like crazy & you're hands shaking like a leaf.
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Ah, yes.  I once saw a post somewhere entitled "Button Back Dresses Are For Boys."  As I remember, it had something to do with so-called "petticoat discipline."

Which reminds me. Back before about 1920, when very young children  -- boys as well as girls -- wore dresses, "petticoat discipline" / "petticoat punishment" apparently had more to do with age-regression than feminization.  It was the equivalent of the later practice (1920s-1970s) of puting an older boy back in short trousers.
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Post by: Angela M... on June 12, 2015, 02:52:19 PM
Hey Betty,
I think that rush we get is what also has us hooked on dressing. I have almost been caught several times in my life and would never stop doing it because of that. It just became more of a challenge to get away with it and of course I loved getting/finding dresses, panties and tights to wear.
Robyn Jodie,
in England in the fifties I always wore short pants and school uniform and when we moved to Canada I was still expected to do the same. In England a boy never got long pants until he became of age at about 12 or 14 years of age. My parents still stuck to that practice in Canada even though all the other boys wore jeans and long pants. The first winter in 1957 was a terrible one for me as we walked about two miles to school and the snow was deep. I had on short pants and the traditional knee socks and my legs were frozen by the time I got to school and back home again. Because of money being tight my mothers solution was to put me in a pair of my sisters leotards as they were called then. They were thick and beige and didn't show too much under my shorts and knee socks so I got some looks but no comments the first few days. The next pair however were white and showed a lot more so the teasing began and never stopped. I was now the little English girly boy in school and the bullying was terrible. You would think I could not wait to get out of the tights but I loved them, the warmth and smooth look of my legs and the white most of all were my favorites. The teachers finally sent a note home for my parents telling them I was creating a disturbance in school (ME) so they should get me long pants soon. The next week we were at Woolworths to get me jeans and I hated them. They were rough and stiff and most uncomfortable to wear. After much complaining and pointing out some softer plaid lined cotton pants in the store I was able to get them. So that was my first winter in Canada and I have loved tights ever since and been wearing them almost 60 years. I also only ever wore jeans when working in the garden or on my house.
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Post by: BillieJo on June 13, 2015, 02:43:17 PM
I well remember some of the wicked winters we had in the later fifties. Although I wasn't made to dress in anything girly back then (at least not in public) I can still remember what the girls  at my school had to go through.  If the outside temperature was below ten degrees the girls could wear pants beneath their  dresses. They would have to remove them once inside the school building. I remember the girls complaining a lot.. In highschool it was only skirts and dresses no matter how cold it got.
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I think that rush we get is what also has us hooked on dressing. I have almost been caught several times in my life and would never stop doing it because of that.

Nope. Not me. I was terrified of the consequences of getting caught. With 6 kids in the house & 2 parents, making 8 people living there, it was almost impossible to get a few minutes alone, even to to put on anything.

So my actual dress-up times were rare. I'd just flip through Wards Montgomery, Sears, & JC Penny catalogs browsing through dresses dreaming of wearing them. Easy not to get caught doing that... just flip over a bunch of pages if I heard someone coming.

It wasn't until they started forced busing kids to schools into other neighborhoods, that I discovered abandoned buildings like the train stations (Central Terminal in Buffalo) where there were plenty private spots & rooms to dress up at more often. There was much less a chance of getting caught there that at home. The place was huge with many rooms & floors. I could hear somebody coming from far away too. I would have plenty of time to either hide somewhere or change before they got there. It never got as close to getting caught as at home. The few times I got nervous because I thought I heard somebody coming it turned out to be just a bird or the wind.

I usually chose a room far up on the upper floors with a window so I can see someone approaching the property from far away. With no working elevators, it would take a while for someone to climb all those stairs to my spot. With over a dozen abandoned (but relatively clean) rooms on every floor, it would be highly improbable they'd find the room I was in.

I used to watch for yard & garage sales for my dresses & stuff. With no money, I knew whatever they didn't sell would wind up set out for the garbage on the next garbage pick-up day. Because of my small size, lots of little girls stuff fit me. Even as a teen, I was still little girl sized.

There was no heat at the abandoned train station. So dressing in winter almost never happened. But if I went long enough without it, I would strip & put on something pretty there as long as it was above 30F outside. I chose the rooms with working windows that weren't broken, so a sunny day would warm up the room a little warmer than outside. In the hot summer, up high, there would be a nice breeze if I opened the windows. There would be plenty of open or broken windows in the place so nobody knew the difference if another one was open.

In the late 1960s, I spent much more time at the Central Terminal than anybody else did. It was practically my home away from home in those days.

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In highschool it was only skirts and dresses no matter how cold it got.

I'm surprised how parents would bundle up their kids nice & warm to play outside in the winter, but would send them to school in cold clothes. I guess they figured they'd be on a warm bus or warm school most of the time so it didn't matter much. They were more concerned about their kids looking pretty for school than warmth. They didn't realize a little kid can get pretty cold on the walk there, or one may have to wait for their bus 20-50 minutes shivering like crazy.

And teachers didn't help with their strict dress codes in the schools in cold climates. Seriously, even your typical boys dress shirts, dress pants, dress shoes & socks were way to thin & cold to wear in this area when it was winter.

The day I chose my own clothes & what to wear to school, I stopped shivering outside.
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Yep. I remember at my school misbehaved kids were accused of being a baby & not being mature enough. They got sent down to the kindergarten class, where the teacher there would put the kids in diapers (I think she loved it because she was a mean & ruthless sadistic battleaxe), plastic panties if they'd fit, complete with a frilly bonnet, bib, rattle, & pacifier. The kid would be placed standing up on a table near the door so all who pass the classroom can see the kid being punished with their diaper on eye-level. Of course, the 30 or so kids in the class got to stare & watch it too.

At only 4 years old, it was the first time I was terrified in my life.

If she could find a short dress or frilly girl's top (she had a drawer full of the stuff) that would fit the kid but still clearly show the diaper, she loved to put that on the boys in it as extra punishment.

This is no sissy story. It really happened. I was there. At least once a week some kid would be sent down to wear diapers & possibly something girly as punishment. Big kids didn't fit the girls stuff & plastic panties, so were lucky to get away with just the diaper, bonnet, bib, rattle, & pacifier hanging around their neck. But if you were small enough to fit the stuff, you got the full little girl treatment.

I think she hated black kids. She seemed to put a lot of extra effort with lots of bows, ribbons, & frills on the black boys.
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Post by: Sisiam on June 13, 2015, 10:26:05 PM
I dreamed of being dressed like one of these girls when I was a little boy.
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Ooo, Pretty. I love old catalog pix.
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As I get near the end of my vintage pix collection, they are mostly the real tiny or blurriest images of the collection. Some or a lot of enhancing was required to make these look fair.  Although I have many other pix of older style outfits, they are in other folders in another category, & not in my "vintage" folders.

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Post by: Angela M... on July 09, 2015, 10:33:25 PM
Many of these pics look like they are from dress patterns if I am not mistaken and when I go to flea markets or Antique barns I always look through the patterns for photo's like these. Some even remind me of the little paper dress up dolls my sister had and of course I played with them when nobody was around. I remember she had the Lennon Sisters dolls and one that was very shiny with clothes made of plastic and you would rub them against your clothing to create static to keep the clothes in place. It never worked very well but I would love to just put the plastic bra and panties on them and think kinky thoughts. 
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Yep. Most of them are dress patterns. As far as vintage girl's dresses, they're the pix that make it onto the internet the most. Authentic photos of those kind of dresses, & old catalogs just don't make it onto the internet as often as the dress patterns, because the patterns are still for sale or on auction, & considered more collectable than just old catalogs & photos of girls dresses.

Up until the mid 1960s there was a sewing machine in every house. Even if nobody in the house made their own clothes, there was at least 1 person in the family who knew how to fix/repair & alter clothes on the machine & by hand.
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Post by: Angela M... on July 10, 2015, 12:02:01 AM
Yes mom had one in the spare room and taught me how to use it a little but not enough to make my own dresses. I am pretty good at taking up a hem on pants and skirts and have even made some small repairs to my panties and slips but that is so long ago that my sewing machine is in a box in storage. When my mother passed away two years ago her sewing machine was still in the spare room all set up like she was going to use it but I bet it was 10 years since she did. I donated it to St. Vincent De Paul and they repair and tune them up and send to poor nations where women can use them to make a living.
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Post by: BillieJo on July 10, 2015, 01:13:09 PM
In the eighth part of this segment there are two dresses I'm very sure my mother made. In the first frame it is the first dress and the red one in the fourth frame. My mother used me for a dress model quite often. I had mixed feelings about that because I was very embarrassed but then again it just seemed ok. On a number of occasions I I would have to wear girl's underwear also.
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Hey Billie Jo, in reply # 215 in the fourth frame is a red skating dress with hat. My girlfriend let me wear an outfit like this when I was 12 or 13 and practicing for a figure skating show. I was volunteered to take a sick girls place by my girlfriend because she knew that we had done all the routines together every night after school and I could do all her routines. She didn't have the hat I don't think but the skating dress was made of red velvet lined in white satin. I was scared to death I would be found out but the teacher and my girlfriend promised not to tell anyone and I was able to pull it off with out anyone knowing I was a boy. I loved every minute of it but was scared at the same time which made it all the more exciting.   
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Sorry for the smaller images. The smallest, lowest resolution images in the collection were near the end of the list. Check the previous pages of this gallery for the bigger cooler pictures.
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Post by: Angela M... on August 04, 2015, 10:01:27 PM
My favourite on this batch is reply 229 pic # 19. The pretty white Baby Doll set with panties peeking out from underneath. My sister had some of these growing up and of course I got to try them on. I was always afraid of wearing them all night in case mom came in while I was still asleep and saw. I did however wear my pink plastic panties quite often in bed all night under my PJ's. I loved the ruffled baby doll panties so much that I wore a pair under my clothes one day only to have mom ask if I had seen them on the floor. She was doing laundry and could not find them with the baby doll top in my sisters hamper. I quickly took them off in the bathroom and put them with the towels in the bathroom hamper but I would not have got away with that if she had emptied that one first. She later scolded my sister for not picking up all her stuff after her bath.
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Post by: Betty on August 05, 2015, 02:52:08 AM
Unfortunately the last of these pictures are the smallest & worst quality of the bunch. Many of them were only thumbnail sized, & had to be blown up & enhanced to get them this big. And the remaining bunch are even worse. So I don't know if it will be worth it to post the rest of them. I guess I'll see how many hits this last bunch gets. It's it's enough, I'll continue posting the rest.
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Post by: Angela M... on August 07, 2015, 09:51:04 PM
Well Betty,
they may not be the best or clearest but we love them anyway and thank you for keeping up our interest.
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Post by: Betty on December 11, 2015, 03:16:04 AM
All is not lost. The 30 pix I posted here are still on file. So after the post was lost with the database crash yesterday, the pictures were not.

So here they are again.

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Post by: Betty on December 11, 2015, 03:17:12 AM
I love this old stuff!
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Post by: Betty on December 19, 2015, 03:37:45 AM
Found some more rare old outfits. I love this stuff.
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Post by: Betty on January 09, 2016, 02:21:52 PM
Once more we're back to one of my favorite topics. Vintage girl's clothing. I love this stuff!

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Post by: Betty on January 29, 2016, 10:25:56 AM
Once more I'm back to my favorite sissy topic. Vintage girls clothing.

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