I turned a few pages. We were now older but no less fashionable. Even our 'play' clothes looked as though we could never have actually played in them. So stylish. So clean. So pressed!
A few more pages, and we were teen-agers, with glamorous hair-dos, fake-fur-trimmed coats, and high heels (the girls, not the boys). As for them — not a bathrobe in the bunch. But maybe we just always dressed up for the camera. No. Thinking back, I recall that we weren't adorned for special picture-taking occasions; the photos simply chronicled our everyday attire. I have snaps of me in my going-to-college wardrobe, for example — beautiful wool suits, dresses and jumpers, nylons and pumps. Jeans? Are you kidding? Even tailored slacks would have gotten me expelled.
At that point, the albums ran out. No more snapshots. We had graduated to 35 millimeter slides. I pulled some out and set up the screen and projector. Our images were now in large, living color, but our wardrobes hadn't changed. Look! There I was with my girl friends on Fifth Avenue — our first trip to New York ... and there, on the Champs Elysees, our first trip to Europe ... in dresses, hats, white gloves, and — heaven help us, those blasted high heels, in which we walked for miles in agonizing pain. You know what I wished for when I threw my coin in the Trevi Fountain? I wished I could throw my shoes in the Trevi Fountain. If only I had. It would have saved me years of podiatrists' bills.
I bet that boy who goes to school in his slippers and the girls with their combat boots don't have tormented toes like mine. Maybe they've got the right idea after all.
Tomorrow I'm wearing Reeboks to church. So what if it's my grandniece's wedding. If the bridesmaids can do it, so can I.
© Rose Madeline Mula for SeniorWomen.com
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