Easter Fashions
For many years I rebelled against holidays. They felt like a giant weight on my calendar year. But that’s only because as a kid, holidays like Christmas and Easter meant the world to my family.
Easter was the less glamorous sibling to Christmas. Christmas was like, the crowning moment of the year, a shameless, non-stop onslaught of gifts and candy and crap. But Easter had some good things, too. Every year I got a new dress and a giant basket filled with things like chocolate eggs, pencils, coloring books, and nylons. Why did I get nylons? Apparently, they were a thing for not just adults, but 9 and 10-year-old girls, too. We dressed up, went to church, and met up with my extended family for a feast of chocolate (and maybe other food.) My grandmother worked as a dipper at See’s Candy and she would come laden with chocolate; giant chocolate divinity eggs and lollipops.
When I look at pictures of myself as a kid, I always had a “cute outfit” on, most likely from K-Mart, Ross, Capwell’s or, later, Contempo Casuals. My mom and grandmother believed in looking put together for the day, even if it was just family getting together.
They believed in making the day special.