Petti Pictures--Graduation Nostalgia

Petti Pictures

SWEET, FLUFFY NOSTALGIA

GRADUATION PICTURES

An interesting insight from Larry:

"Below is a cropped Summerfield School class picture from 1960. It was pictures like this one that began my interest in photography.
Let me tell you a story. Do you see the way those girls are sitting? The way their legs are placed ? Every photographer took class pictures like that. But the girls didn't automatically sit like that. When they took my class picture in 1959, the photographer had every
girl in the front row stand. The photographer reached in back of each girl and scooped her petticoats as he told her to sit. I'm sure he
felt a few girly bottoms as he did so. Then he arranged their skirts and crinolines. He then positioned their legs as you see in this picture.
I can remember so well all the giggling from those girls and all I could think of, as I witnessed this ritual, was what a lucky guy! I wished
I was he!" Tessy: Don't we all! How exciting!

(ABOVE) St. Georges High School in London, Ontario, Canada - courtesy John N.

(ABOVE) A nice 1960 Class photo of a sixth grade
Now: Would WE be sitting there so calmly if WE were one of those two teachers? Tessy surely would be smiling like the one on the right!
Courtesy Ian and 'Voluminous'

(ABOVE) Ian sent this unusually petti-detailed 8th grade class picture (1959)
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(ABOVE) A rather nice class pictures from 1957, when most ALL the girls wore crinolines to school.
Compliments Allison, who lived through it -- one girl who realized that the eyes of Poufies such as Tessy were ALWAYS on hem of her skirts!!