I have photos of her wearing that exact dress to her hometown's bicentennial History Days in 1932! With a group of friends in very eclectic historical costumes, at least one of which I swear is dressed as a steampunk mad scientist (although it might just be a twenty-year-old motoring costume.)
Presumably that's why that particular dress was still in her closet seventy years later when it came to me. Just in case she needed it for more dress-up, and then before long it was too old to just toss. (I have some of my mother's outfits that were about thirty years old when I first borrowed them for costume parties, too. Still in my closet just in case!)
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Presumably that's why that particular dress was still in her closet seventy years later when it came to me. Just in case she needed it for more dress-up, and then before long it was too old to just toss. (I have some of my mother's outfits that were about thirty years old when I first borrowed them for costume parties, too. Still in my closet just in case!)