Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: August 19, 1943

Thelma and Lowell's Diary: August 19, 1943

She cuts out a blue gingham dress; Gertie and Eleanor continue their travels

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: August 19, 1943
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Thelma did a few things with Vangy in the morning and while Lowell slept she cut out a blue gingham dress to sew. It might have looked like this perky housedress, offered on Etsy, complete with rickrack trim that was popular at the time.

Meanwhile, Gertrude Sanford Legendre was crossing the Atlantic in a Portugese ship and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wa…

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