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The Little White Dress

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Thewitch

The Daily Post – Snapshot Stories asked us to open any folder and find the first picture of ourselves we came across, then tell the story. This is me, aged seventeen, wearing my favourite dress in the world EVER!!! I bought it from a grotty little shop for just 50 pence, in 1978, and I still have it now!! I chopped several inches off the bottom, but didn’t need to hem it because it didn’t fray. I wore it with Doc Martens, and stilettos, and ballet pumps. It never creased, and it has remained snow white! It was one of the first things my Torn-Apart asked if I still owned when we reunited, and most bizarrely of all, my Fragrant Mother produced a photograph of herself at the age of sixteen wearing the exact same dress!! Incredible!!

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Kat on June 2, 2014 at 00:47 said:

Very cool! Do you still wear the dress? 🙂

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- Thewitch on June 2, 2014 at 10:07 said:
  
  Not very often, my legs are no longer a joy to behold!! It does still fit me though, which is really cool!! 😀
  
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  - Kat on June 2, 2014 at 19:50 said:
    
    That is really cool! My body is nothing like it was as a teenager. 🙂
    
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pavanneh on June 2, 2014 at 04:14 said:

I love that picture. You look so happy and like you are having fun. Great dress!

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- Thewitch on June 2, 2014 at 10:09 said:
  
  Best time of my life!! I still have the same hair!! 😀
  
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EmmaK on June 2, 2014 at 07:50 said:

Great picture. I still have clothes from my late teens, though I don’t wear them I can’t throw them out. Too many good memories.

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- Thewitch on June 2, 2014 at 10:10 said:
  
  I do too!! My daughter wears them now!! 😀
  
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Claudette on June 2, 2014 at 08:02 said:

Does your Mother still have hers? Perhaps this is the EXACT same dress, how weird would that be. Look like you were going out to kick some bottom, and enjoying it. 🙂

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- Thewitch on June 2, 2014 at 10:12 said:
  
  Hahahah!!! I did a lot of bottom kicking in those days!! Wasn’t the same dress, but darling daughter wears mine now!! 😀
  
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  - Claudette on June 2, 2014 at 10:14 said:
    
    A family heirloom then, that dress. Does DD do bottom kicking as well?
    
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  - Thewitch on June 2, 2014 at 10:16 said:
    
    Oh yes!! In very high heels!! 🙂
    
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  - Claudette on June 2, 2014 at 10:18 said:
    
    High heels are great for toe rushing – so I have been told
    
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  - Claudette on June 2, 2014 at 10:18 said:
    
    and possible crushing too
    
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  - Thewitch on June 2, 2014 at 11:20 said:
    
    Hahahah!! Believe me, she can do both!! I have never seen anyone sprint in six inch heels like she can!!
    
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  - Claudette on June 2, 2014 at 11:22 said:
    
    A talent to envy. I can’t sprint in flats!
    
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