PORTRAITS OF THE SIXTIES

 


The four Bradley siblings – L-R: Yours truly, middle sis, brother, & youngest sis in 1960.

My brother’s high school graduation portrait 1961

1962 Easter with our Dad.  Dad, me, and my brother in back; sisters in front.

1963 Easter with me, my sisters, and Mom & Dad.  Bro’ was taking the picture.

My brother, yours truly, and my sisters. Easter 1965.

My youngest sister’s high school graduation portrait 1966.

Middle Sis’s college portrait 1966-67.

Sisters-three with Dad, 1967

My engagement portrait, 1968

The portrait I wanted to use, but I was outvoted.

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La Nightingail

P.S.

The Easter tradition continued in the ‘70s with my own family.  This was Easter, 1977 with son Ross, and daughters Stephanie and Suzanne.  The girls’ dresses were double-duty.  They were short-skirted dresses over a long skirt.  My cousin made the blue dress for her daughter which was passed on to me for my daughters, and I made the pink one.

Our family sibling ‘portraits’ were not limited to Easter, however.  We have multiple yearly snaps of the three waiting, on Christmas morning, to hear the jingle bells signaling all was clear to head for the tree to see what Santa had left them.

And, of course, the kiddos in their Halloween get-ups.  For several years I made all their costumes.  This one of my son’s took the most patience as I cut all the bones out of iron-on material, then slaved over a hot iron to get them to stick to the cloth.  So the kids this year – 1976 – were a dragon, a skeleton, and a purple cow.  I made the purple cow costume for my son, originally, and the girls wore it in turn after him. J

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!


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Comments

  1. Barbara RogersOctober 27, 2023 at 5:35 AM

    These are wonderful, definitely showing women's styles changing! Love your little trick-or-treaters!

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  2. Mike BrubakerOctober 29, 2023 at 7:17 AM

    It's always interesting to see how photos can be similar and yet taken at different times. I think hair styles and fashions of our modern times have more variations that would have been unthinkable to our ancestors. And the best Halloween costumes are always handmade. I don't expect I'll see many this year.

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  3. Monica T.October 30, 2023 at 6:29 AM

    Ah the 1960s...! (I was 5-15 during that decade)

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