Friday, October 30, 1925
Snow
Albert dressed up in the yellow clown suit I made for Dale’s kindergarten party 5 years ago and wore it to a party at kindergarten. He has been talking about it all week. Dale went to a party at the church from 6 to 8. He dressed in his black suit with long pants and Eton vest and Negro false face. Looked cut and had a good time. Dick went to the show.
(More snow and it wasn’t even Halloween yet. I don’t know if anyone has noticed that Grandma always included a word or two about the weather each day in her diary.
It appears they did dress up for Halloween, at least to go to parties. Dale might have been influenced in his costume by Al Jolson. Albert sounds like he was a typical five year old, all excited about dressing up for Halloween. I wonder if the older boys also went trick or treating back then?)
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I remember going trick & treating. It seemed like every year I had to dress like little red riding hood because we had a red cape with hood. But back then we were invited in to eat a piece of cake or something of that nature.That takes a little bit of time so we couldn't cover much territory. I don't ever remember getting loads and loads of candy like they do now.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine your child wearing "Negro false face" today??!!
ReplyDeleteThe "negro false face" was quite telling of the times and how far we have come.
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