In the lowest picture... does anyone remember those baby shoes? Oh my... we all had them. My Mom even had some sort of bell that would clip onto the laces (I guess Moms thought we were cats?!) Mom’s generation and the one before her would get the shoes bronzed. I guess they were dipped in some sort of metal so they could always have the first baby shoes.
Buster Brown?
My grandmother gave me my first shoes as bronzed bookends when I graduated college. She said it was to keep me humble and remember my beginnings. Didn’t work.
AH memories.
“Oh my... we all had them. My Mom even had some sort of bell that would clip onto the laces”
I was tethered outside to a porch post once in a while when mom didn’t want me to wonder off. LOL
I believe that was right after the toilet vacuuming incident.
Oh, yes, we had those baby shoes, as well. My mother would also use the bells, but I think it was to entertain the baby, but maybe it was to warn the birds. :)
One of my sisters had her children’s first shoes bronzed. Another sister had a daughter’s ballet shoes bronzed. These children were born in the 1960s and 1970s. Not sure how the bronzing thing started, so now you have inspired me to try to find out.
Bronzing: There’s a company that still does it.
http://americanprofile.com/articles/bronzing-baby-shoes/