A Blast From The Past!

This summer our family took a trip to Southern California to visit our daughter and her sweet family. Six of my grandchildren live there and I miss them so!  When I was packing for the trip, I came across the scooter skirt I made in seventh grade Home Ec. class.  Yes, I lived through the scooter skirt craze!  I guess now you would call them skorts.  Do people still use that phrase?  In fact, while shopping at a thrift store a while back, I found a copy of the original pattern I had used so many years ago.  I had to pick it up for old time's sake!

I packed the skirt in the hopes that it would fit my granddaughter, even though she is younger than I was when I made it.  I thought, "How fun would it be to get pictures of my sweet little granddaughter in a skirt I made so many years ago?"

Well, I have to say that it did fit, and she LOVED it!  She was so excited to wear it and participate in a photoshoot.  I tell you, that girl loves to pose!  When I told her that Grandma had made the skirt over 45 years ago, her response was..."It's amazing it's still standing!"

This was quite the labor intensive scooter skirt when I was in seventh grade...waistband, top stitched pockets, front and back flaps, zipper, button and buttonhole, hook and eyes.  As a side note, those last few things were a little foreign to a seven-year old that's used to elastic waistbands, or skirts that aren't shorts also.  It was quite a fiasco when it came time to use the bathroom... "Mom, how do I get this thing off me?!"