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My grandmother, uncle and father at the Chicago World’s Fair.‘…my grandfather out of
the frame, as he almost always is.’
being dressed differently. Here, around 1913, is my mother dressed up—hat
with a feather, gloves, delicate linen at wrists and throat, her ‘chie’ belied
by the sweetness and simplicity of her expression. This is the only time I
have seen her like this, caught in a History (of tastes, fashions, fabrics): my
