How true that every woman will recognise someone. That's my grandmother, her sister and Aunt Margo on the left! :) Sadly those postcards don't seem to be available over here.
Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted each week by the lovely Beth. Each week you can see a variety of postcards from the old to the new, the comic to the serious, a true variety. Be sure to visit! Did you know that today was Wiggle Your Toes Day?Beth did and posted an appropriate postcard in celebration! This postcard is from a book of postcards called Gal Pals: Women's friendship and association. This is another of the Pomegranate Postcard Artbooks. No wiggling toes, but I love the old shoes and the idea that these good ladies are barefoot.
[Image] Church members at a Sunday baptism near Mechanicsville, Maryland, c.1942 Photograph by Marjory Collins Print and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
"From schoolgirls on monkey bars to grandmas at a fair, from best-friends forever to confidantes at work, this book of postcards presents thirty vintage portraits of everyday women and girls in the company of one another. Women everywhere will recognize their moms, their sisters, their friends, and themselves in these evocative images captured by a variety of photographers, including such renowned masters as Marion Post Wolcott, Dorothea Lange, and Russell Lee - a visual celebration of the pleasures, complexities, and abiding comforts of female friendship."
This collection of 30 vintage images is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
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Close this window Jump to comment formHow true that every woman will recognise someone. That's my grandmother, her sister and Aunt Margo on the left! :) Sadly those postcards don't seem to be available over here.
August 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM
Snap:
This sounds like a great collection of postcards. Happy PFF!
August 6, 2010 at 4:47 PM
There is a whole story in the card as they rest in their Sunday best. I can feel the heat in the day.
It sounds like a wonderful collection of cards.
August 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM
what fin!!!
August 6, 2010 at 5:33 PM
I can just see these ladies secretly wiggling their toes in the sand!!! Happy PFF thanks for sharing!
August 6, 2010 at 6:06 PM
The picture is perfect since my friends and I leave for MV tomorrow - we won't be waring "house dresses" though...
August 6, 2010 at 8:44 PM
This sound like a great collection as well as, a great idea to sit after mass on Sunday with ones shoes off would be heavenly, toes wiggling or not.
August 6, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Oh, I just love this postcard. One of the women looks like my Grandmother. Happy PFF.
Karen
August 6, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Glad they kicked off those heels. The hats, printed dresses, the hair fixed just so...love it all.
August 6, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Seemed to be such simple times. Love that postcard!
August 6, 2010 at 10:55 PM
I agree - that is a great postcard collection!
August 6, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Great card! Having friends is a great thing!
August 7, 2010 at 5:59 AM
Beautiful One, Snap. Yes the idea of the bare toes stretching and enjoying freedom on the other side makes it, doesn't it ?
Have a great weekend !
August 7, 2010 at 9:53 AM
I really like the feeling oozing from this card - relaxation, friendship, contentment, joy. Really wonderful image.
August 7, 2010 at 3:36 PM
Hehehe! Yes, they ARE barefoot, aren't they?! Wonderful!
August 7, 2010 at 3:40 PM
My grandmother, my great aunt, all those women
wearing dresses, always dresses....not anymore.
Thanks for sharing. xox Corrine
August 8, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Women in the shade, men in the sun...:)
August 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM