I have a large collection of handbags, and it would appear that the fascination began early. Jim recently bought a device that scans slide photos and this one has made an appearance after sitting in a box for almost 60 years.
My mother would have made this dress and starched the petticoats. My hair is straight, and always has been. Mum used to put my hair in bobby pins for hours to give me curls.
Dad built the house I am standing in front of. It would probably have been still under construction at this stage. We did have grass eventually.
While I do collect handbags, I no longer wear a bonnet, socks with my sandals, or short skirts that show my undies.
How adorable!!!
By: margieinitaly on January 7, 2013
at 12:09 am
…and I still have knock knees.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 12:39 am
Great photo Deb – tell me what brand was the slide scanner and do you recommend it? I am looking for one – but have seen some pretty dodgy nes on the market. Would love to hear you comments. Happy New Year to you F xx
By: francescam@ihug.com.au on January 7, 2013
at 12:16 am
It is a Kaiser Baas Photo Maker. Model KBA03005. It is easy to use and does an excellent job. We have been having a lot of fun going through the old photos. Dad took lots of photos when we were very young. He made himself a darkroom under the house and loved to work with his photos.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 12:34 am
Thanks Deb
By: francescam@ihug.com.au on January 7, 2013
at 2:42 am
Loved the picture Debra – just adorable.
Pam Proctor
By: Anonymous on January 7, 2013
at 12:26 am
It is difficult to imagine putting little girls in starched petticoats now.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 12:35 am
You were adorable. And yes that bag fetish does start early. And. White dresses with frills. Pretty girl.
By: Dianne Cant on January 7, 2013
at 12:26 am
The curls get me. My hair could not be straighter if it tried.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 12:36 am
Love this, Debra! And how wonderful that everything was made by your parents – both inside and out!
By: Karen Overton on January 7, 2013
at 12:31 am
It is possible that my mother or my grandmother made the bonnet as well. I come from a very practical family. My Dad could turn his hand to anything.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 12:38 am
Bellissima! You were an adorable child. It is good to know that you still don’t dress like that, but on the other hand it could be quite interesting. LOL
By: J.C.V. on January 7, 2013
at 12:57 am
I think it would be scary rather than interesting.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 1:15 am
Nothing like a new toy to help share the past with others.
By: aFrankAngle on January 7, 2013
at 1:30 am
I don’t often do personal stuff, but these old photos are fun…I may do some more.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 2:04 am
I actually have an old one of me at Ponte di Diavolo I want to work in someday.
By: aFrankAngle on January 7, 2013
at 2:06 am
You should, that is an amazing bridge. I have dozens of photos of it. I drive past and think it is looking particularly wonderful and I stop and take yet another photo.Strangely enough they all look remarkably similar.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 2:38 am
To me, it’s not if I post it .. but when. 🙂
By: aFrankAngle on January 7, 2013
at 11:36 am
Wow-quite a fancy purse for a little tot!!! I wonder if it is Italian made?
By: jann on January 7, 2013
at 2:59 am
The photo was taken in about 1956/7, so I doubt there were too many Italian handbags in Australia.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 3:44 am
Look at you! So adorable and such a pretty outfit. Love that you had the handbag detail sorted out at such an early age! 🙂
By: Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella on January 7, 2013
at 3:27 am
I have no recollection of the handbag, but I do remember walking up the street most mornings to visit my aunt and grandfather.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 3:46 am
Very European – the sandals and sock I mean but the little handbag is tres chic.
By: rozmacallanz on January 7, 2013
at 10:01 am
Sandals and socks are OK for little kids, but it is not a look I like on adults.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:44 pm
well socks and sandals have always been a no-go unless you’re continental but skirts that show your undies are all the rage now – ahead of your time! sweet photo
By: Where's Wiwi? on January 7, 2013
at 10:29 am
I have been seeing lots of middle aged women in mid thigh skirts lately…it is not a good look.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:46 pm
How adorable! It’s such a wonderful photo and I too remember being dolled up like that.
By: paninigirl on January 7, 2013
at 2:33 pm
I used to dress my son in beautiful clothes that I had made for him. People would stop us in the street to say how lovely he looked, but then he got older and it was uncool to have things your mother made.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:48 pm
This is amazing and adorable, dear Deb. How lovely… Thank you, love, nia
By: niasunset on January 7, 2013
at 2:38 pm
My mother made all our clothes for us back then.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:49 pm
Adorable, especially the chic little handbag! Can’t have too many . . .
By: nuovastoria on January 7, 2013
at 3:21 pm
I subscribe to that theory, although I think I may be reaching my limit.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:50 pm
Aww, that’s so cute! Glad to know you dress differently now 😀
By: Madhu on January 7, 2013
at 5:05 pm
It would be quite alarming if I went out now looking like this.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:54 pm
Very, very cute. I also love handbags and my mother insisted on curls when my hair is straight and no curl would last more than 5 minutes….
By: mulino dominillo on January 7, 2013
at 5:14 pm
My hair still does exactly as it pleases, and fiercely resists being curled.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:57 pm
I started collecting handbags early too, and I’ve never stopped! Your picture is really cute 🙂
By: megtraveling on January 7, 2013
at 8:18 pm
I find them very difficult to resist, but I am trying.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 8:58 pm
So cute – pleased to hear you no longer wear socks with sandals 🙂
By: The Travelbunny on January 7, 2013
at 8:55 pm
I love this post – you look so cute and the curls are adorable. The story reminds me that my Mum still keeps a bag that I had in childhood and as I too love bags I guess the interest does start early.
By: Just Add Attitude on January 7, 2013
at 9:24 pm
In some of our early photos my brother is clutching a reindeer, clearly a favourite toy. Mum still has that. There aren’t too many relics from our childhood. I have kept some of my soon to be 40 year old son’s baby clothes.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 7, 2013
at 9:28 pm
Happy 2013, Debra. And if you didn’t it to the world’s largest collection of handbags, the Tassenmuseum Amsterdam. keep it in mind for next time.
PS I’ll be in Brisbane for a week from Jan 28. Will you be there? Coffee?
By: Richard Tulloch on January 8, 2013
at 8:59 am
I will definitely look out for the museum next time I am in Amsterdam. I would love to meet for coffee in Brisbane, but I leave for Italy on 16th January.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 8, 2013
at 9:29 am
That photo is such fun – very Shirley Temple. My poor mum was always trying to coax my fine, straight hair into curls. I can still remember the pong of home perms and trying to comb my newly permed tresses was like trying to comb wire springs!
By: Jan on January 8, 2013
at 12:12 pm
My mother permed my hair on the odd occasion and it was horrid…and I certainly remember the smell.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 8, 2013
at 1:41 pm
Such a cute photo of you, Debra. My hair is straight, and my mom would wrap it around pieces of bandage at night, so that I had ringlets in the morning. They were very uncomfortable to sleep in. 😯
By: adinparadise on January 8, 2013
at 9:19 pm
I wonder why our mothers were so keen for us to have curls. I think I looked much better without them.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 8, 2013
at 9:24 pm
It must have been to copy someone they admired in the movies, maybe. 🙂
By: adinparadise on January 8, 2013
at 9:27 pm
Oh, too cute!
By: composerinthegarden on January 9, 2013
at 3:57 am
Thank you. I must have been about 3 in the photo.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 13, 2013
at 4:15 am
Hi – I came over from Lisa’s Mozambique post.
Are you sure your father cropped the heads off the photos? I wonder whether the scanning machine wasn’t set correctly for each slide?
We’ve also got boxes and boxes of slides which we have to transfer to digital format. Its a huge job. Do you recommend your machine?
By: dearrosie on January 13, 2013
at 3:19 am
Hi Dearrosie, it wasn’t the machine that chopped of the heads. It did a very good job and is very easy to use. It is a Kaiser Baas Photo Maker.
My sister has a lot more of the transparencies, and my mother has boxes of them, but she can’t find them. I hope they turn up before they disintegrate.
By: Debra Kolkka on January 13, 2013
at 4:18 am
Reblogged this on Sabethville.
By: ranu802 on January 14, 2013
at 4:37 pm
I made a mistake,I thought I Reblogged the cat.Anyway the girl in the picture is cute,thanks.
By: ranu802 on January 14, 2013
at 4:43 pm
Such a cutie pie!
By: twoblackdoggies on January 15, 2013
at 2:17 am
I could virtually pinch those cheeks right now! No worry, I’m a gentle pincher. 😀
By: rommel on January 30, 2013
at 6:24 am