Posted by PeterH on June 06, 2006 at 12:24:32 from 81.132.218.99 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: The Way We Were - Ambleside Oral History Group posted by Jock on June 06, 2006 at 11:44:36:
a great resource
Hear hear! And bang on cue for our Frocks Tutorial. Just had a look at 'Clothes, Part 1' and found this:
On top of the petticoats we wore cotton frocks in summer, or kilts in winter, and sometimes these long shapeless jersey dresses. I had a navy coloured reefer coat and we had to wear laced ankle boots because my mother believed they helped to strengthen the ankle.
Laced ankle boots - those are surely what Mary Swainson is wearing in 'Darning Roger' in SD.