Featured Help with 3 old chocolate boxes

Can't help, but wow! those are nice!

 

The bodices fit the girls pretty well, but the skirts are much too long for them to actually wear. Suspect the dresses are photography studio props that make a sweet photo, hide shoes, evoke on earlier time.

 

Think it's the girls' hair styles that are most helpful for dating. Not sure when girl's started wearing shorter hair but I suspect early 1900s. That would work for dress bodices too.

Debora

 

Lovely boxes. Can see why someone would have saved them all this time.

Debora

 

Those girls are adorable, but all the boxes are TERRIFIC!!!! Mom kept me in those "Banana Curls" in the late 40's & early 50's......probably until I revolted!!!!!!

 

First, the boxes are fabulous (love the second one).

Second, my hair is so crazy thick and curly and my mother so unskilled with things like hairdos, I had those stupid curls (only much tighter coils) until I was 11.

At which point I got a "Shag Cut."

Which I thought made me cool.

Looking back, I was incorrect.

 

I think the first one is printed. The second looks like it might be hand colored?

I'd say the pictures aren't clear enough to tell, but I'm not sure I could sort them from better pictures. Perhaps others could.

 

The only time I had a shag haircut when I was 20. I did it out of desperation to get over a very bad idea of a couple of years earlier.

My hair was down to the middle of my back & my natural color is that mousy dull brown color. I decided one fateful day that I wanted to be more of a blonde. So I bought a box of Nice & Easy Ash Blond & took it home. I had to send a friend to the drug store to get another box in the middle of the whole procedure because 1 wasn't enough.

Fast foward a couple of years & I was sick of messing with it every few months when the roots started showing bad. Not to mention I was really more of a strawberry blonde which wasn't what I wanted. A shag was the only way to let the color grow out & it not take forever. Not to mention how tacky I would have looked for months.

So I went from the middle of my back to the longest length not even touching my shoulders in one single cutting. The DH, who I had only been married to for about 6 months, damn near had a cow when he came home that day.

 

Never ever say you've had a shag if you're in the UK.

 

I was very careful in the wording of my initial comment. Very. Careful.