One dress; four little girls.

In 1982 when DD1 was one, she was given a little dress for her birthday from her daycare mum Margaret. At her little family party, I dressed her in that dress...

Not really a very good photo of the dress unfortunately but it was pretty and became a much loved outfit of both DD1 and later on, her little sister. DD1 was to give the dress a name; the ‘Polly Put the Kettle On Dress’ after the illustration of that nursery rhyme character in one of her books. Polly’s dress looked so similar. No photos of DD2 in the dress have been found but she did wear it, and love it! 

Well, I kept that dress plus a few other favourites. But by the time my girls had their own children, fashions had changed and they weren’t really interested at all in their old dresses. But in a last hurrah before the stored clothes were ‘despatched’ to new homes, I lovingly washed the little ‘Polly dress’ and...

Yep! I first tried the dress on Miss Holly when she came to us for minding on her usual Friday...


Then the next day we visited DD1, her hubby and baby Carrie. And yes, we dressed her in her mum’s dress too! 

And a sort of re-creation of that 1982 photo but with an armchair instead of a high chair.


So there you have it; 2 generations in 1 dress 😃.