AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

Followers

Monday, September 29, 2008

Flashback Fashions


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Shop window of retro fashions and accessories (pre-loved) at Rosebud, Mornington Peninsula
~
Totally Optional Prompt ~ Revisitation
~

When I was quite young
Lovely dresses floated by ~
I remember gloves
~
When I was quite young
Dainty high heels clicked and clacked ~
I saw dancing feet
~
When I was quite young
Tall, netted and saucer hats ~
I loved their parades
~
When I grew older
I knew bold coloured mu-mus
Shifts and bright sandals
~
The glow was still there
But elegance slipped away
Until today's flash
~

11 comments:

Maria Verivaki said...

like a dress up shop - nothing like that exists here. great memories...

Leslie said...

Is that an op shop? I went to one today to get my ice cream dishes. :)

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=281854

Jane Hards Photography said...

That does look like either a fancy dress shop or a step back in time.

A Wild Thing said...

I'm just thankful not to wear girdles and pointy bras...let's hear it for JEANS AND TEES !!!

sharon

Andy Sewina said...

Yeah, doesn't it just take something like your shopfront image to rekindle the imagination, nice poetry.

Stan Ski said...

I often wonder what it was like in certain periods - at least we have revivals.

anthonynorth said...

Great nostalgia. Loved the pic, too.

Annie Jeffries said...

So dreamy and nostalgic Gemma. I picture you in heels and an apron, shirtwaist dress pressed just so. Personally, the mu-mu is much more comfy, I think.

Beth P. said...

Don't you just love trying on 'pre-loved' clothes? I feel and imagine the people who loved and sometimes were loved by them...

And the smell of those shops. Some people don't like it--I particularly do. Sweat and hope and joy and lust.

Thanks for this sweet piece!!

Anonymous said...

Gemma,

This makes me want to put on a dress and a hat and a pair of white gloves and go shopping along the sidewalk shops of the old downtown.
Thanks.

Jill said...

I loved the poem. Wonderfully written. Sorta dreamy feel to it...

CALENDAR

Tasmania

Tasmania
A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

Tasmania

Tasmania
View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

New Landscapes

New Landscapes
New Worlds

Archive of Blog Quotes

  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

Google Analytics

The Inner Light of the Spirit

The Inner Light of the Spirit
The Spirit of Inner Light

Lady Gemma

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Lady Gemma the Unique of Walk upon Water
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails