Dress Up Days

Many days spent at Nana's house on the farm were fun. Her house was so massive that it could be scarey if you were to spend the night with her and Dad alone. It was always more fun to stay with another cousin.
My mom and Aunts used to go to lunch at Nana's quite often. We 3 girls would go upstairs and be nosey. We always were leary of the attic. Making up stories of the boogy man and ghosts in the attic we always shy ed away from going up there.
One day we decided that we would be adventurous and be brave and scout out the attic.
It was amazing in what we found. A little girls dream for dressing up. It was unbelieveable!!
We found beautiful old fashion dresses, shoes, huge wide brimmed hats, gloves and a box of old dolls. We all 3 thought we had hit the mother load.
The dresses were of tafita and lace. One was a lavender dress with a gorgeous shash and covered in lace. It had matching gloves and shoes and a huge wide brimmed hat with flowers and grogain ribbons flowing off of it. The other was a pale pink and had beads and lace covering the bodice and lace covering the tafita. Long sleeves of lace with little beads for buttons.
Huge full crinalines and two gorgeous ball gowns that went with them.
There were some pantaloons and one gown with a hoop skirt.
The box of dolls were different. They were all very old and had handpainted faces. They were very different. The clothes were all handmade. We found out that Nana's aunt and grandma loved making doll clothes. They made all of Nana's doll clothes. The were very unique.
Well after finding all these new things to play with we would put on style shoes for the ladies.
Nana would find some music on the radio and we would strut our stuff and twirl around.
They would snicker at us and clap and we would all giggle.
With putting on heels that were too big we would topple over every once in a while. We would all laugh and keep on styling.
Nana was very giving and would let us play with the dresses and other things as long as we put them back in the trunk the way we found them. What fond memories those are. We had found new treasures at Nana's and had a blast.
What a great lady she was!!! God Bless Nana!!!