Quote from: Michelle_K on May 12, 2024, 10:25:42 PMThere was a question about when or how it felt the first time wearing a dress. Like I said assigned male at birth. I would like to know why there are pictures of me as a baby wearing very feminine dresses. I say feminine as there was lace and ribbons. This was in 1949. There is another picture of me in a dress on my first birthday.
Michelle
Welcome back Michelle. Sorry to hear about you accident, glad to hear your on the mend and back home.
That "Dress" with the lace and ribbons may have been a christening gown. There were a couple of such gowns on my mother's side of the family. My uncle's and aunt's were baptized in one of them. I was, my siblings were, and most of my cousin's were. Possibly my grand parents too. When it was time for a christening, a gown was sent from who ever last had it. Often it was delivered in person for the christening. Back in the day, Baptisms were a very big deal with Italian Catholic families and just one of the many reasons for the extended family to gather together. There's a very sweet photo of me, laying in some kind of bassinet with off white satin sheets, in an off-white lace gown that extended past my feet by a good bit. It's a black and white photo so I'm assuming the sheets were off white. I know the gown was, my son was baptized in the same gown.
I can't speak to the first birthday dress, not a clue.
Paulie.