Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted each week by the lovely Beth.
Each week you can see a variety of postcards from the old to the new, the comic to the serious, a true variety. Be sure to visit!
Did you know that today was Wiggle Your Toes Day?
Beth did and posted an appropriate postcard in celebration!
This postcard is from a book of postcards called Gal Pals: Women's friendship and association.
This is another of the Pomegranate Postcard Artbooks.
This is another of the Pomegranate Postcard Artbooks.
No wiggling toes, but I love the old shoes and the idea that these good ladies are barefoot.
Church members at a Sunday baptism near Mechanicsville, Maryland, c.1942
Photograph by Marjory Collins
Print and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
"From schoolgirls on monkey bars to grandmas at a fair, from best-friends forever to confidantes at work, this book of postcards presents thirty vintage portraits of everyday women and girls in the company of one another. Women everywhere will recognize their moms, their sisters, their friends, and themselves in these evocative images captured by a variety of photographers, including such renowned masters as Marion Post Wolcott, Dorothea Lange, and Russell Lee - a visual celebration of the pleasures, complexities, and abiding comforts of female friendship."
This collection of 30 vintage images is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
Happy PFF!
Joy to You!
17 comments:
How true that every woman will recognise someone. That's my grandmother, her sister and Aunt Margo on the left! :) Sadly those postcards don't seem to be available over here.
Snap:
This sounds like a great collection of postcards. Happy PFF!
There is a whole story in the card as they rest in their Sunday best. I can feel the heat in the day.
It sounds like a wonderful collection of cards.
what fin!!!
I can just see these ladies secretly wiggling their toes in the sand!!! Happy PFF thanks for sharing!
The picture is perfect since my friends and I leave for MV tomorrow - we won't be waring "house dresses" though...
This sound like a great collection as well as, a great idea to sit after mass on Sunday with ones shoes off would be heavenly, toes wiggling or not.
Oh, I just love this postcard. One of the women looks like my Grandmother. Happy PFF.
Karen
Glad they kicked off those heels. The hats, printed dresses, the hair fixed just so...love it all.
Seemed to be such simple times. Love that postcard!
I agree - that is a great postcard collection!
Great card! Having friends is a great thing!
Beautiful One, Snap. Yes the idea of the bare toes stretching and enjoying freedom on the other side makes it, doesn't it ?
Have a great weekend !
I really like the feeling oozing from this card - relaxation, friendship, contentment, joy. Really wonderful image.
Hehehe! Yes, they ARE barefoot, aren't they?! Wonderful!
My grandmother, my great aunt, all those women
wearing dresses, always dresses....not anymore.
Thanks for sharing. xox Corrine
Women in the shade, men in the sun...:)
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