When you were a kid, what store/stores that is/ are no more did you get your Easter outfit from? shoes were from Bakers

[debm55]

dress, hat, and gloves. from Kaufmanns.

[Biophilic]

1. Was Bakers the one with the X-ray machine?

[debm55]

4. The one I went to didn't have the machine. They used the metal thing.

[Walleye]

6. I remember the x-ray machines for shoes

[enid602]

2. MayCo

The May Company. Never Zodys for Easter.

[Skittles]

3. "Easter outfit"

sorry, I've never even heard of such a thing

[debm55]

7. Hi Skittles, I was an outfit, I would wear to church and then to grandparents for dinner. Shoes, dress, hat, gloves.

and a purse. It was traditional around here for the girls. Boys got suits.

[Skittles]

13. ahhhhhhhh

yup my family was not religious in any way

oh my, I bet you looked cute

[Walleye]

5. We had sort of an upscale women's clothing store named Emmanuel's

I would get patent leather Mary Janes. My grandmother worked there for years.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Montgomery Wards or Sears.

[dai13sy]

9. Baker's for shoes and Alexander's in Springfield for everything else

[USAF Brat]

10. Shoes from The Shoe Box;

A children’s shoe store with a a small Merry Go Round in the front courtyard, and they were the only store that had wide shoes for kids like me who needed them. Then either Neiman Marcus’ or Joske’s for the dress, petticoat, socks and a hat.

This outfit was for church, the egg hunt, a family photo and Easter Sunday supper.

What lovely memories that brings back! Thanks Deb for the little trip down memory lane.

[woodsprite]

11. Almart , Sears, Bambergers, Wanamaker's, or

Newark Department Store. The department store was about the only place you could find girls white cardigans and girls slips. I loved going there because they had one of those vacuum tube systems. You’d pay the clerk, she’d put money in the tube and it would get sucked up to the main office. They’d put your copy of the receipt and your change in the holder and send it back down to the clerk.

Shoes were from Pilnick’s, and no white patent leather shoes before Memorial Day!

[Dorothy V]

12. Depended on where Dad was stationed.

When we were at Phalsbourg, we'd go to the big BX at Metz, which put a lot of major department stores to shame. At George, Thom McAn for shoes and Fedco for everything else. At Williams, Penney's, and at Hill, Sears.
Mom made a lot of my dresses, but my Easter outfits were always storebought. Looking back, the dresses Mom made were every bit as nice as storebought clothes. They never looked homemade. She was that good. I still have her sewing machine. It is a 1923 Singer that had an electric motor put on it in 1947.
Remember the fabric sections in the old wishbooks? The only pages in color. I loved looking over the fabrics with Mom. Happy Days!