Maybe your mom was an Olympic swimmer. (Okay, YWCA league swimmer, second string). Or maybe she took you to the community pool every weekend and disappeared behind the latest issue of Vogue while you dodged loogies and played Marco Polo. The point is, we all have our own chlorine-slash-sunscreen-soaked memories. And our cruise director (Lifeguard? Swim coach? I don't know; this metaphor is getting away from me faster than a Swimmie sucked up by a pool vac) was always good old mom.
With Mother's Day just behind us and Memorial Day fast on her kitten/wedge/stiletto heels, what better way to say thanks to matriarchs everywhere than with a little splish splash flash of felt? I don't know about you, but I've always been a fan of the paradoxically frumpy glam charm of a skullcap smothered by flowers. Still, I had my doubts that this awesomeness would translate to my hat lady brooches. Mostly because, before I added the flowers, the caps looked like hard-boiled eggs or alien heads or, horror of horrors, bicycle helmets. But the more color I added, the better they got. By the time I was done, I had a bevy of bathing beauties, or, more to the point, red hot mamas. Unless that's inappropriate. Poll, please? Nine out of ten moms say no. And the tenth one swims in a parka.
So, it's official: rocking a swim cap is the best way to play retro. Not that we needed a poll for that.
In the retro department, anything beats doing dishes.
2 comments:
Oh, my memories in the context of swimming are different :) My uncle teached me to swim and I always were in the water of his pool :) But it is lovely what you write and show here! Happy weekend my dear!
xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
www.dressedwithsoul.com
The swim cap idea is toooo cute!!! The brooches are darling and just in time for the approaching summer. :) Swim caps are totally retro to the max!
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