WOMEN IN SUITS & HATS

 

On the left in 1909 in the lighter-shade suit is my husband’s maternal grandmother, Lillian Ross Pringle Brasier – newly married and ready to go off on her honeymoon with her new husband, Harry Brasier.  With her are her mother, Margaret Pringle, and (sitting) a friend or cousin – both also wearing suits and hats.

Not sure where or when this photo was taken?  That is Lillian wearing a suit beneath her coat with, I believe, her mother.  Don’t know who the fellow is?  Could be one of her brothers.  She had six of them.

c. 1914 - Lillian in a pretty spring suit with her two daughters Phyllis on her right, & Virginia (my husband’s mother) on her left.

In this photo Lillian is wearing a light colored suit & hat. Relatives were saying goodbye to the Brasiers as they were leaving Toronto.  They eventually wound up in southern California, but spent some time in Chicago where their third daughter, Margaret (Peggy), was born.  Harry Brasier is standing next to his sister, Emily, dressed in white.  The two older Brasier girls, Virginia & Phyllis, are on either end.

I’m not sure who this is because names were not written on the backs of most pictures from the other side of my husband’s family, but whoever it is, she’s wearing a casual suit of the early days.

My paternal grandmother, Harriet (Hattie) Bell Smedley Bradley in a smart fur-trimmed suit and hat.

All three women in suits at my mother and father’s wedding.  L-R: My granddad Bradley, my mother’s mother (my Grandma Louise), my Dad, my Mom in a light blue short-sleeved dress with matching jacket trimmed in silver fox fur, and my Grandma Bradley.

Fast forward to Easter, 1963, with myself and my sisters in spring suits and hats.  My suit was of a satin-cotton material in shades of aqua & turquoise, my youngest sister was in cream yellow, and middle Sis’s suit was a shade of pink as I recall.  And that’s our Dad & Mom with us.  Mom’s dress was purple.  I believe Dad’s suit was light brown.  Look at all those white gloves! 

1968, my Mom in a rose colored suit and matching hat, ready to be escorted down the aisle to a front row seat at my wedding.  I believe that’s my husband’s mother behind her?  My two sisters are awaiting their turns to advance down the aisle as my maid of honor and bridesmaid, and behind them are my Dad and me (what you can see of me) awaiting our turn. J

My husband’s mother in a lovely light blue suit and pink fluffy hat greeting wedding guests after the ceremony.

I left our wedding reception bound for San Francisco in a sleeveless linen sheath dress and matching coat in light avocado green.

And then along came women’s pant suits in the 1970s of which I had several but was never photographed in because I was always the one taking the pictures!  One of my favorites was a light lemon-yellow suit with short cuffed sleeves & round-edged lapels in a knit fabric.  A little more striking was one with a jacket in orange, beige, & tan horizontal stripes over beige pants.

I wore my lemon-yellow pantsuit to my brother’s wedding but being the one taking the informal pictures, I didn’t get in any of them.  My sister did, though, wearing an avocado green pantsuit.  Our youngest sister is on her right, my youngest daughter, on her left, busy eating cake. J

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La Nightingail