Our store-bought Easter dresses
No matter how hard the times were in the 1950s, when Easter came, my sister and I were going to have an Easter outfit. It might have been handmade by Mama, but it would be washed, starched and ironed to perfection.
This year our smiles were larger than usual, because our dresses were store-bought with hats to match. Mama and I had gone into the pasture, picked large buckets of blackberries and sold them to a local store. Then we went to Monroe and shopped in the basement of Newberry’s. There in the middle of the rack of clothes were our perfect Easter dresses, and hats to match. My parents couldn’t afford new shoes, but that didn’t keep Mama from polishing what we had, over and over, with black shoe polish.
Our dresses had large hems, so Mama was able to lower the length for several years, and we were able to see many Easters wearing the same dresses.
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