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Show Time to put away summer clothes p.g. blab By MARCELLA WALKER There was a little frost on the pumpkin Tuesday morning and that is a sure sign that things are cooling cool-ing off and I had better get the summer clothes put away and the warm ones out. My fingers tend to freeze quickly while gripping a cold steering wheel first thing in the morning. Then it takes about an hour for them to warm up enough for me to use them for anything. I hope I can remember where I left my gloves. Last year I loved my winter clothes. I had several sweaters and sweatshirts that I really liked. I almost hated for summer to come and I would have to put them away. Well, this summer I went to a couple of sales and splurged and came up with some really nice new summer tops. Now, I can hardly bear to put them away. Besides, now last year's sweaters sweat-ers that I liked so well look kind of faded and dowdy. Thank goodness I was able to find a couple of nice new sweaters at Christensen's sale. I do love tops that are in pretty colors, usually pastels. I think it is a carry-over from when I was a teenager back in the '50's and we wore such lovely colors of Jantzen sweaters, White Stag in those days, college girls wore dresses. No one would have dared to wear pants to school. Long walks from class to class between buildings on campus when it was bitter cold in the winter were miserable and the knee socks did help a little. I hope the girls today realize how lucky they are to be able to wear longpants in the winter. They can even put stretch insulated tights on underneath. Wow! Pants are my very favorite kind of attire. I only wear a dress to church and when I absolutely have to at other times. Dresses are nice and they make you look feminine but they are not nearly so comfortable as pants. It makes me wonder why men wore tunics for so long before the long pants were discovered. In pants you can sit in more comfortable positions, you can get out in the brush without getting your legs scratched, you can hide runs in your nylons. There are lots of good reasons for wearing pants. We had a neighbor across the street when I was a young girl. She was a wonderful lady but she always al-ways wore a dress, as did most all women in those days, and high heels. In the summer in the mornings she would go out early and pull weeds from her flower beds. She would bend over from the waist, her back toward the street, and you can imagine the view from our vantage point. My dad always did joke about it. She needed to be wearing pants but it was almost unheard of. Women wore "house dresses." I have never had one of those and hope I never do. They were always made of printed material and the mothers wore an apron over the top. I actually wear an apron once in a while. However, it is usually only when I am frying something which might pop out or if I am whipping cream or something. Our 18-year-old dishwasher recently gave up the ghost and I have been having to wash dishes by hand, heaven forbid, and I don't even use an apron for that. Although Al-though once in a while I end up with a wet spot in the middle of my tummy. It dries soon. Well, all of this is a long way from my original premise that fall is here and I am going to have to live with my dowdy looking sweaters sweat-ers and sweatshirts, at least until Christmas. I hope somebody out there takes the hint. Eh? pedal pushers, and so forth. We also were very comfortable in our dad's outsized white shirts with the tails hanging out over Levi's which were rolled up to mid calf. We wore ankle socks, sometimes rolled down at the top. These ankle socks the girls are wearing now are in lovely colors but I have had trouble getting used to the baggy socks look that is in style. While we were in college we wore knee socks. It is a good thing. Back |