Did your parents ever do THIS? (pics 2) Updated (1pic)

[Logan]

No, but then if they had, I would have probably died of heat stroke! It never got that cold here.

Cute pictures, Connie!!!!

Logan

[4 Dog Mother]

This is me Jasmine, writing under MeMaw's name. I remember those days like it was just last year -



They got me so bundled up I hardly fit in my stroller!


Aunt Amy, why am I so bundled up when you don't even have your coat zipped or a hat one?

(These were taken at the March 26, 2005, Findlay Dog Park Gathering)

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Jasmine you are so cute!!! I feel your pain about being bundled up to your eyeballs though!

I am so jealous of those of you who had a hat with pom poms!!! I would have loved one of those!!! Here is what I got stuck with:

The weather didn't even have to be cold!
The fact that my brother looked like a dork too, was not much comfort!!!

WHERE DID MOM FIND THOSE HATS????

They kept appearing over the years in different colors but with the same icky brim!!!

Another one of my "fashion statements" was the suspenders!!!
HAVE MERCY!!!

[Kfamr]

Thank gosh, NO!

Growing up in Florida does have it up sides, I suppose.

[Dorothy39]

I enjoyed the snow suit stories!!!!!! As we used to say , during the 60's, these memories are a "blast from the past"

I hated having to wear those boyish corduroy pants with flannel lining underneath my dress . When the temperatures dipped well into the teens, my mother forced us to wear these elastic waist " boy cloths" !!! When I got to school, (I walked), I had to practically preform a strip tease act in front of the other kids.

One memory, however, concerns a very stormy walk to Kindergarten.

My Mother worked, so, she could not walk with me to my afternnoon Kindergarten class. She "forced" me to wear an adult raincoat!!!! It was huge!!! Oh no, I didn't have a cute little yellow rain coat like the rest of the kids, not me, I had to wear a transparent "HOT PINK" rain coat with silver snaps!!!! I cried , while running in the rain!!!!! Grasping the hem as not to trip on it!!!!! I have that same rain coat today, and, it fits me perfectly!!!!


Does anyone remember those rubber, over the shoe, boats with zippers?They usually had gray fur at the cuff. Wow, they were ugly!!!!!!!

[Cinder & Smoke]

Snow Suit??

Oh, yeah - every year!

I started out in Orlando, Florida - remember Dad had a sail boat ...
He went in the Army - Mom & I went to Cleveland ... and I got a Snow Suit.

Dad came home - and got a job with J&L Steel as an Iron Ore Mining Engineer at
Star Lake, New York - where Winters were WINTER!

We lived in a "company house" - with a coal furnace at the circle end of a long,
gravel road - 100 feet behind the house was wilderness.
When it "snowed" at the Mine - it REALLY *SNOWED* at the house!
More than once we opened, and quickly closed, the first floor doors ...
then went UPstairs and left the house via a second floor WINDOW!
Then we'd shovel our way down to the back door.

New York Snow Suits were built for business ... thick and zippers everywhere!
And the "inner layers" ... flannel-lined pants, couple shirts, socks ...
and ALWAYS the "GO to the bathroom BEFORE I dress you!" reminder.


And i had all the "accessories", too! ...
* 5-buckle rubber boots (like Dad wore)
* the dorky hat with the Ear Flaps that tied together under your chin
* that darn ITCHY Scarf (I'd ditch that as soon as I got out of Mom's sight)
* and the wool MITTENS - with the STRING tying them together that ran
up one sleeve, across your back, and down the other sleeve ...

I managed to loose one of those Mitten Rigs once ... mittens had come off and my
hands were getting numb ... one mitten snagged on a bush and I didn't notice ...
kept goin ...
and pulled the other mitten UP one sleeve, across my back ...
down and out the other sleeve ...

Mom went BALLISTIC!!
"HOW did you manage to loose BOTH of them!??"

Not to worry - we found em hangin on the bush a few weeks later when the snow melted.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Thanks for sharing your stories everyone. I'm glad I'm not alone in the humiliation from parents department!!!

I even had to wear my brother's old flannel shirts. Actually, that wasn't so bad. I love flannel shirts now and have a couple. They remind me of being a kid.

I'm sure I have a picture somewhere......