Comments on: A Spring shirt from Liberty of London

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:43:28 +0000

Unfortunately, due to many moves in life I do not have any clothing heirlooms left, however, the sight of large check, pink and white gingham evokes a memory of a mother and child look alike competition we entered into one holiday wearing matching cotton summer dresses of this material. It was the 1960’s and we came second. I still have the photo’s so I have the dresses by proxy I suppose. I can’t look at gingham without this memory rising to the surface.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:40:07 +0000

My saved clothes consist of a Laura Ashley long skirt in a wonderful lilac print bought in 1970 , definiteley won’t fit me now, and 2 long dresses also from the early 70s that I wore to college ‘balls’ . They were my first long evening dresses ( we used to dress ‘up ‘ not ‘down’ then !) and i’m glad i’ve kept them . My daughter has tried them on and I expect that she’ll be asking to wear them if there is ever a 70s party she wants to attend.

By: Susan Lendroth

Susan Lendroth — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:53:01 +0000

Heirloom clothes — what a wonderful notion. I especially like the idea of bucking the fashion establishment’s declaration from season to season of what’s “in” or “out.”

My daughter now wears a decades-old Snoopy sweatshirt that I wore in high school, and it was saved because it was put in a bag of spattered clothes from painting my childhood home years ago. By the time I helped my parents clean out their garage for moving, that bag of old clothes was a time capsule, and I kept Snoopy. Now he’s worn again, paint spots and all. It’s not as classy as a Liberty print shirt or as exciting as the commenter’s black lace dress that was once worn to dance on tables in Australia (love that story), but it is a humble heirloom in our family.

By: Autolycus

Autolycus — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:07:11 +0000

What a lovely story: and collars can be turned, you know – it gives a shirt another however many years.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:13:14 +0000

A lovely journey that memories can take us on without realizing. My grandmother gave me on my 18th birthday a beautiful black lace dress that she said she had danced on the tables in Australia, it was my favorite dress and when my daughter was 18 last year I passed it on to her. Loved the photo of your mum
Sarah

By: kay

kay — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:52:47 +0000

.this is beautiful….i have a small stash of fabric from my childhood which evoke wonderful memories …and I know my daughters (all grown up) remember the dresses I once made them…threads of memories woven in fabric..love it!!

By: KristanT

KristanT — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:05:39 +0000

Lovely.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:14:18 +0000

Sometimes we’re told not to invest so much of ourselves in our physical possessions, but how can we not come to love and cherish the occasional article that evoke so many thoughts and memories? Further, sentimentality is not a fault unless carried to the extreme (when in fact it can be a symptom of an underlying problem). An appreciation of sentimentality is something which people often can’t appreciate until they have more years behind than ahead of them. Bravo, yet another article setting my synapses ablaze, thank you.