I think it must have been one of those "let's take some decent photos of the kids" sessions. In those days, for special occasions, you brought out the Hot Rollers. My sister and I would have been so excited, doing our hair like Mum. And not content with adding fine upward curls to the bottom of our dead straight hair, using the largest rollers of course, Mum also popped a warm roller into my little brother's blonde baby hair, giving him one beautiful curl at the top of his head. The photo of him is adorable.
But I can't show you that photo. Instead, here's a couple of photos where there is evidence of what Mum did to our hair. Which was nothing too atrocious.
Definitely a home haircut on my fringe, wouldn't you say? No idea whether the handiwork was mine or Mum's. I know I definitely have trimmed both my kids' hair, but Climber's is so straight and thick I can't really get away with that anymore. I do love this photo. Mum with her girls. My mum is so blonde and glamorous. I think there was still a degree of back-combing going on with Mum's hair in those days. Bronnie and I loved her long hair, loved seeing her get dressed up in some of her fabulous party frocks. Like the leopard print pant suit with a plunging neckline and the hole in the stomach. Or the bright yellow mini dress. I've got 2 of Mum's glam outfits in the back of my wardrobe. The woolen LBD gets the occasional airing but the rainbow skort dress has been a little snug since Cherub's birth. Sadly. One day...
Hair photo #2. Do you think she could have parted my hair properly on School Photo Day?!?! Geez.
Or is forgetting that it's School Photo Day genetic?The Bompy Alla song was indeed Pump It by the Black Eyed Peas. Well done to Caramaena, Jac & Siobhan for recognising it, and to Blue Mountains Mary for correctly identifying which bandwagon to jump on.
All of these photos gave me a great big smile. Your mom is so pretty, and you and your sister are so precious. Sure, the part in your hair is goofed up a little in the last photo, but school photos can be so phony that it's nice to have some variety.
ReplyDeleteAll children should stay at home until five minutes prior to the school photo being taken. They turn up on the day clean and shiny with beautiful hair. By 2:15pm when the photo is finally taken they all have wobbly parts in their hair!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos.
Your hair in the school photo looks positively neat compared to how girls wear their hair to school nowadays...omg, I'm sounding so old-fashioned!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo of you and your sister with your mum.
Your Mum is sooo pretty! And you are sooo like her! Just the differnt coloured hair.
ReplyDeleteIn my day, (I cringe when I read that!) we had no colour photos, no individual pics. Just the herd, untidy or no. Only the one chance. if You looked a Dork, it was forever!!
Oh, nice pic.
ReplyDeleteand nice threads.
Oh, and in the spirit of the last post, apparently one of the songs performed at the school concert was:
ReplyDelete"I never caught a rabbit and ate no friend of mine"
What a fun friday idea. I might have to look in to it myself.
ReplyDeleteThat photo of the three girls ( you two and your mum - she looks very girlish) is so lovely. Your mum sounds as though she was amazingly groovy.
ReplyDeleteMine wore kaftans.
Which unfortunately if they had been kept would fit me.
I agree with Mary, your Mom sounds like she was/is fun! Murphy's Law applies to School Photo Day. My hair was guaranteed to do something funky that day (natural curl curse) and it was a given I'd drop something splattery from lunch down my front. Giving me the thrown away look my mother was NOT trying to achieve.
ReplyDeleteRather lovely, your mum, don't you reckon?
ReplyDeleteShe probably did part your hair properly at 8:00 in the morning of the day school pics were going to be taken. But by the time you actually got in front of the camera. GAH!
ReplyDeleteWell, you're cute, anyway. I love the freckles.
ReplyDeleteIn my day we didn't even have school photos at all. Britain in the post-war years, you know - no money for fripperies. And no, I don't mean the First World War...
I can see both your beautiful boys in your young face.
ReplyDeleteYou were ahead of your time ...that uneven hair part is in now!
word verification is apt for this time of the year..nurgoaly!
Do you know how much people pay to get that kind of part? Lots, that's how much.
ReplyDeleteLove that photo of you and your sister with your mum. Your hair looks great, and your mum is so pretty.
Your mum is gorgeous!! I love that photo of the three of you. You are blessed that the person taking the photo didn't blur it like so many crappy 70s photos.
ReplyDeleteYour lovely mum and her lovely girls....I do think that photography is one of the greatest inventions.....
ReplyDeleteLoved these photos!! That dress is fabulous!! and your school photo too - who hasn't got a messy hair school photo! I have one with a real greasy fringe hiding the bruise that I acquired that morning - and my mother put butter on it!! I sure she still believes that it helps!!
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