This Little Dress Goes Around and Around

This is a picture of my favourite dress when I was two and three. My mother could never get me out of it and it twirled around and around and so did I when I wore it. It was one of the first garments made in Wash and Wear. It had red velvet polka-dots on it and you could wash it every day and it never needed ironing and always looked brand new. I loved my little dress but one day my mother said I was too big for it and she was going to send it to her sister for all of my cousins, and there were a lot of them, all smaller than I was. I was so sad but eventually got over it and moved on to a new dress. I don’t know why they can’t make clothes like that any more. I guess because you would never need to buy another one. What ever happened to Wash and Wear? I forgot all about the dress until I had my first daughter, Jessica. A package arrived in the mail and when I opened it, it was my little dress, still as good as new. So Jessica wore it and then I saved it until Amber was born and then she wore it. The dress is now about fifty years old and I saved it for my grandchildren and the three girls wore it, now they have outgrown it and I am sure it will pass on to Amber if she has a little girl. If not I am sure my great grandchildren will love it. Except for the fact that the velvet is gone the dress looks and feels just like it did when I was little. The red hadn’t even faded where the velvet was. It is funny how sometimes a child will get particularly attached to an item of clothing, well this was mine and it is still twirling around with cute little girls in it. I was so surprised that my aunt had saved it all these years and that it made it through all of her girls, four of them I think and then it came back to me as good as new. The wonders of Wash and Wear.