For prom season, submission that exhibits what being mom style icon is all about:
"Here is a picture of my Mom (Elizabeth Lanahan-Dodd) in 1960 in a prom dress that she made. It was a gorgeous pink satin material,there was pink netting at the top off the shoulders and small silk flowers placed around the dress ever so delicately. Her picture reminds me of the Hollywood starlets waiting around before the start of the Oscars.
Later when my Mom and Dad were raising the family they always put us kids first. Along comes my 6th grade production of The Nutcracker and I was the Sugar Plum Fairy. All the kids in the play had to have parents provide the costumes. My mom made the ultimate sacrifice, she cut up her beautiful prom dress into a smaller ballerina costume for me. I will never ever come close to repaying her for what she did for me. Not to mention my siblings constantly ripping me for 'Oh if it wasn't for The Sugar Plum Fairy needing a costume, we would still have Mom's vintage prom dress!'"
Happy mother's day Mrs. Lanahan-Dodd!
2 comments:
Your mom looks stunning, I love the dress, it's so princey and elegant. Is it pink or salmon colored?
It's amazing to see the "evolution" of prom dresses and fashion in general.. I have to say I like your mom's style much better than the new dresses, though I'm very pleased to see fashion is going back to the 60's style, thanks to Mad Men!
What a beautiful photo and I love the dress. I wish us women can still dress like that! There were such much glamourous back in those days! I wonder what happen now!
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