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[Spankypants2]

Giving boys an option of wearing a skirt to school is a great idea. It would also make other daily tasks easier for the faculty . . .

[andyg0404]

Hi,

Victorian Carte De Visite CDV: Young Boy In A Dress: White Bros: Grimsby
https://tinyurl.com/yxe38dmt

Andy G.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

1930s Young Boy Cross Dresser Wear Ladies Dress Gloves Hat Carrying Purse Photo

https://tinyurl.com/y6djqgh4

Crossdressers In 1933 Vintage Found Photo Gay LGBT History Vernacular Antique

https://tinyurl.com/y45kb8un

Antique Photographs Series Of 5 Silver Gelatin Framed Art Photos Of Transvestite

https://tinyurl.com/y465uxdb

Andy G.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

Unusual Vintage Photo Cute Boy in Girls Dress w/ Baby Doll Toy 383073

https://tinyurl.com/yy7lbt4s

Andy G.

[Betty]

Thanks. We can enjoy imagining, but with no label or markings on it, it's more likely just a girl from about 70-80 years ago.

[andyg0404]

Hi Betty,
I thought it might be a girl but it looks to be a staged photo and the clothes the kid is wearing are too big, more like hand-me-downs. And I've seen the kerchief used to hide short hair in other pictures. And I don't think a little girl would hold the baby doll like that, it looks like it was the final touch before the picture. But I agree that without identification there's no way of knowing.
Andy G.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

Here's another picture of the same kid and I still think it may be a boy. An unsmiling boy which could be because of his outfit.

Vintage Photo Unusual Boy in Girl Dress w/ Wire Fence 386048
https://tinyurl.com/y3zhe5jp

Andy G.

[Betty]

Just about everybody who lived through the depression or had parents who lived through it had to wear "hand me downs" that probably didn't fit well.

It was just a way of life... you just never threw anything out or wasted anything. Once upon a time they had to, to survive. But they never grew out of the habit when it wasn't necessary anymore.

I had 4 brothers older than me, plus my little sister was close to my size. So I literally didn't have any clothes or shoes of my own (yeah, all my shoes hurt too). Mom had a sewing machine, so the clothes were forever repaired or patched. The oldest kids got the new cool clothes while the youngest looked like third world refugees. My little sister got some new clothes, but also wore-hand-me-downs from my brothers & some cousins.

It helped pay for their summer country cabin, & a new station wagon every 3 years, while we walked around miserable & embarrassed in 10-20 year old clothes.

It's no wonder I grew up hating my boy-clothes. They were F'n terrible.

We had no bicycle newer than the early 1950s until 1969 when I bought a used one myself by saving up doing odd jobs. We had to maintain the old 1950s bikes ourselves out of junkyard & garbage-picked parts.

[Angela M...]

Yes Betty, that was the way it was back then when you had siblings. The clothing was always hand me downs. We lived in the U.K. in the early 50's ( I was born in 49 and my sister in 1950) we share some clothes that she could wear like my baby clothes and shoe's/ sandals. We wore Mary Jane style shoes back then which maybe why I love that style so much and the sandals that you see the Royal family children wearing even today.

After the nappy stage my sister and I wore the same knickers, plain white flannel cotton ones and under vests. After the war we lived with my grandmother and my moms two sisters until dad came home from Singapore and he was often out looking for work during the day.

I look at photo's today of myself and my sister and our friends ( all girls ) and I can see why I played dress up quite a lot back then. Even after we arrived in Canada in 57 I would still play dress up with my sister and her friends with mom's things and some of the other girls clothes.

We sure did not have much back in the 50's and dad was often looking for work here also as many of his first jobs were seasonal until the early 60's. Like you, we had to keep what we had in good condition and my sister and I were in awe of some of the kids on our block who got amazing toys for Christmas. We always looked forward to getting a Christmas letter from our grandmother and aunts in England with a few pounds in for a gift.

It was not until I was in my teens that I learned my parents were sending them money every month if they could to help support them as their jobs and grandma's pension were never enough for them to get by.

They lived in the same rented two story house where I was born and my mother was raised owned by a doctor who lived next door and he never raised the rent much knowing they could not afford it.

The family and friends of my parents who also came to Canada at the same time eventually got better jobs and bought houses but we still exchanged hand me down clothes into the late 60's because that was how we got ahead in those days.

[samantha1]

Angela, so you lived in the uk till you were 7 years old, before going to Canada. IF you had a chance would you have  preferred   staying in the uk or is Canada allot better.  Many years ago when i was young and finding many years later that my parents would buy for the children and not for themselves.