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even though I stopped
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Hope your day turns out as well
as I hope (but doubt) mine will,
Gingy (Ilene)
Let’s get that Tangee lipstick!
(and at least we’re done with girdles, sanitary belts, hair rollers… what else?)
Congratulations on making it this far! Many good wishes for more years. Oh… and… what ever happened to penny loafers? And Pedal pushers? And those orange sherbet things in tubes? And black jack gum? Horehounds? Rabbit ears? The list is endless! In junior high we had to take swim lessons with the boys and our suits were school supplied red cotton knit, no elastic. Sometimes they had holes in them. They sagged the minute they got wet and showed every line of our bodies. The boy’s suits might come off entirely if the kid dove off the board. Heh. The old days. Were they good?
Happy birthday to the most youthful 87 year old I know!
I love this blog! You are so funny! And Happy 87th Birthday, young lady!
Oh gosh, did you bring back memories! Just some:
Along with my Shirley Temple doll I also had a Revlon doll and a Betsy McCall doll (remember McCall’s magazine?) I still have some fairy tale books, bobby pins and my autograph book w some celebrity autographs at the back.
I hid toys in my faux fur muff, since I was very young when I had one. Who gives a kid a muff???!!!
I have handkerchiefs that my grandmother crocheted edges around because grandma. I have mom’s black gloves-white ones were dirty, threw them out.
I am still amazed that all women weren’t blind from spitting in that red mascara box.
And oh gosh, that gym uniform. Could they have made anything more embarrassing?
Thanks so much for the trip down memory lane; I haven’t thought about some of this stuff in years.
love it and happy birthday
I can’t say that I know any of the items you mentioned above as a 30 year old but I can say that you are the worlds most brilliant and amazing 87-year-old there is, of course not only because you’re related to me but because of you are who you are! Thanks for being you! Love you always – your granddaughter Allie
don’t fret over “whatever happened to this or that—if you stick around long enough everything comes back…..except maybe that mascara!
I’ve been thinking about it too. We’re downsizing. All my little white gloves that I was asked to wear when we dressed up to go to San Frncisco and all the handkerchiefs are in the bottom drawer and soon to disppear. Long ago I switched to Clinique mascara, the fancier brand my husbnad’s aunt told me was de rigueur. I do, however, have a dusty lavender sweater set. It doesn’t show off my figure like the example, but I no longer have the cute figure one has as a young woman anyway. C’est dommage and c’est la vie. I still try to look through my rose-colored glasses.
Love,
Claire
Hello Gingi. I remember 87. For me that was just about the time the pandemic started! And I’m still here. I never had a Shirley Temple doll, but I did have a beautiful doll with a bisque head that my brother brought me from London,where he served in the U.S. Army during World War Two. She was beautiful but I was too afraid to play with her for fear she would break. Happy happy birthday! Sally
whatever happened to knowing your own phone number..
what ever happened to everything.
I think i might die of nostalgia.
but i will still be six months longer than you.
and I still love you so very much always…….Gay
WHAT EVER HAPPENED!!!!!
Hi Gingy
I remember many of the items you mentioned. I still own the straw baby carriage that held my doll. I had a Shirley Temple doll wearing a blue gingham dress that my mother made. I do not know what happened to the doll. I cannot believe we are having a college reunion. I never thought I would live to see this day.
Getting old is a real challenge. I am turning 87 on the 13th…. OY!
HAVE A FANTASTIC BIRTHDAY!!
Gloria
Thank you for the nostalgia, dear Gingy! And happy birthday month.
I still have the gloves (good for the subway in a pandemic),
a muff (Persian lamb–my mom’s),
hankies (Aunt Shirley’s).
I don’t know what happened to necking. Do you think it has anything to do with my neck always wrapped in a scarf?
p.s. Isn’t 87 the new… 77? Something like that?
I can’t restore your youth but Tangee lipstick is available here:https://www.vermontcountrystore.com/
Somebody else said, “It’s not the years in your life, it’s the life in your years.” You are living proof!
A gem! Another gem! Love it! Love you!
Happy, Heathy Wonderful Birthday!
XXX
nancy
Happy Happy Birthday!!!! I hope I am as sharp and creative as you when I am 87. I think you are amazing.