Legacy Writing 365:177

I make no bones about it. I’m an Anglophile and a fan of the British monarchy. I don’t follow their every move, but I’ve remained interested in them over the years. I particularly get a kick out of the young Royals, and I like Kate Middleton for many reasons. One is that it tickles me that she, her mother, and her sister not only repeat outfits, but they wear one another’s clothes. I remember when I got to the age where I could borrow from my mother’s and sister’s closets. We all had different builds, but there were some things we could share. If I wanted to be dressy and feel ladylike, I’d borrow something of my mother’s. If I wanted to feel cool, I’d borrow something of my sister’s. Of course, we never had anything like the incredible fashion the Middletons exchange–but Kate has been known to buy high-quality items from resellers, so good on her. Recycled fashion is awesome.

After my mother died and I was going through her things, I found these and cracked up. I’m pretty sure that even though a good scarf will always be in style, these little plastic…scarf rings? Is that what this would be called? The Boy Scouts call theirs woggles, but I’m not sure if there’s a term for them as a women’s accessory. Anyway, I don’t know if they’ll ever make a comeback, but if they do, I’m set.

In addition to scarves, collars that tied, like these:

could always use an accessory. Very popular when I was a wee teen: initial pins. Here are a couple of mine.

And a couple of my mother’s. In fact, that gold C might have even been a tie tack of my grandfather’s. But I couldn’t swear to that.

Here’s another of my mother’s favorite accessories to dress up the ties and scarves on her blouses.

If I’m not mistaken, this was a gift to my mother from Terri even before David married her. I’d say she was trying to butter up her future mother-in-law, but she never had to. They were always great friends.