Out and about at a small estate sale it was fun to browse, but not much of interest until I spotted this mid-century quilted bathrobe. It’s not glamorous, it’s not a Star, but it IS a PERFECT example of a garment which almost everyone’s grandma or great-grandma may have had in her closet in +/- 1950! No doubt it came from an everyday bargain store like Spurgeons, J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward or Sears & Roebuck. Alas, there is no remaining label, if there ever was one. The scalloped collar hints at the 1940’s, buttons to the mid-calf (modesty covered!), the 3/4 sleeves and tiny rose print were common at various times during wartime and the next 20 years and the pearlized pink plastic buttons with stems are SO Fifties. It’s also in great shape.

Every one of the 6 buttons is present!! The original belt is present!!! The in-seam pocket has no holes!!!! It’s lightweight but cozy-warm without being made of polyester plastic material (I suspect that it is entirely or mostly nylon). It’s clean with no stains and only minor wear, which doesn’t show without close examination.

So, into my closet it hangs as a go-to bathrobe which I will use daily just like Peggy, or Mavis, or Doris, or Annette, or Mary Jane, or . . . .

You just never know .

MORGANA MARTIN, THE MAGICVINTAGESPY

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