Sisters Livin’ in the Seventies

So here are my sisters and I lined up on a metallic gold jacquard vinyl couch in the house on Huntingdale Rd. It's the 70s, and the little cutie in a red frock with white bobby socks and desert boots is me.

Star is still part of the white sock brigade like me, rustically teamed with fluffy blue slippers. I'll bet anything my mum picked out that purple and white geometric print dress, since purple is her favourite colour. She inflicted an equally hideous magenta purple garment on me when I was about eight, for Lily's wedding.

My oldest sisters have discarded socks and graduated to sandals and wedges.  Blossom (who must be around 17 or 18) is holding me. She is fetchingly attired in a lurid plaid dress featuring a built-in white short-sleeved cardi. My other sister in the Alice band, Lily with the Legs, is wearing what is probably a polyester floral-print dress.

What a pity all these clothes must have been consigned to the charity bin decades ago!