In preparation for Mother’s Day, I thought I would share some favorite Mother/daughter photos. This one is of particular historic significance because it memorializes the pink plastic curlers that I remember so distinctly from my youth. Was the daughter preparing for a big night out, or did the photographer catch her partway through her morning routine?
The affection between the two is clear from their smiles and the mother’s proud hug. I love the print on the older woman’s blue paisley shift dress, which looks like it comes just to the knee. It has a wonderful collar detail, called in one contemporary recreation a “sixties funnel roll neck.” Here’s a similar style in a Givenchy pattern from the era:
Pattern image from sovintagepatterns.com
In her paisley shift dress, I think the mother looks more of the era than her daughter in this particular photo. But it is the younger woman who wears the pants.
Some women wore hair rollers almost everywhere in the 60s: to the grocery store, delivering kids to school, etc. I remember reading a (fictional) article about a bride wearing rollers to the ceremony because she wanted to look good for the reception.
Now that you mention it, I remember curlers at the grocery store. Never at a wedding, though.
Love the peacock blue paisley — and that vogue pattern. I remember seeing girls on Friday or Saturday night movie dates wearing curlers, and wondering what big event they were “saving” their hair for. Of course, your hair did take a long time to dry in rollers. I slept in rollers all through college to have a “flip” in the daytime.