I'm sharing this for Nov 29 Sepia Saturday
which shows a float and some girls dressed as swans, as well as a Swan Maiden on the float.
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As a general rule, if you take a daft photograph and then let it soak up eighty years of history it will become even dafter. This is certainly true of this 1930 photograph of the Swan Maiden's Carriage at the Grace Brothers Ball in Sydney, Australia. Grace Brothers were - believe it or not - a famous Department Store, and the strange scene depicted in this photograph (which comes to us by way of the Flickr stream of the Powerhouse Museum) is as strange as anything you might have seen in an episode of "Are You Being Served?". Possible themes for Sepia Saturday 256 include festivals, floats, feathers and fair maidens.
Mataley matches the swan maidens perfectly - beautiful hair too!
ReplyDeleteWhere is the child who doesn't like dressing up ? We've all done it.
ReplyDeleteA great match for the swan queen. What would little girls do without a princess dream?
ReplyDeleteI like dressing up too! It can be so much fun if you get it right.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like your mother would have enjoyed being in a parade or pageant, like the ladies in our prompt photograph.
ReplyDeleteI remember dressing up in some old formals my mother had saved. I wish I had some pictures.
ReplyDeleteOh that's right...I wonder what happened to all those formals I wore. Since I had sons,and they weren't into "dress up" those dresses were all purchased and only worn once. We all thought there would be another occasion, but it never happened.
ReplyDeleteWell now I know Grace Brothers was a real store, it's familiar to me from watching the hilarious reruns of "Are You Being Served" set at Grace
ReplyDeleteBrothers .. interesting and nice old black and whites...
Lovely photo of your mother - didn't every 12 year old want to be older! I love the old group photos as well.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I just clicked on your pottery blog and you are a fabulous artist! I love pottery, have picked up some here and there at art shows over the years.
From my days on the 'little theatre' stage, I had a whole trunk of costumes but gave them to the local theatre when we moved as I didn't foresee doing any more acting. I used to have a lot of fun dressing up and stepping out onstage, pretending, for a little while, to be someone else.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you said she was only 12 -- she did a good job pretending to be older! I was certainly fooled.
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