it's the fact that it's a guy in the dress???

Kari~

Definitely dates the pic as recent.  BTW, the car looks like an early 60's model Ford rather than '50's...

-- Modified on 10/14/2008 11:51:15 PM

.....or the 1960's....the answer for me is the same.

The photo takes me back, with one big exception, to Fall 1962, my senior year of high school.  I was one of the lucky guys who drove the convertibles carrying the Homecoming Queen and her Court.

TATTOOS?  Never saw one on a female or even a male in high school .... nor college for that matter.  (Had the Queen or a member of her court “sported” one, my guess is that she would have been disqualified by the school principal; maybe not right, but that’s the way things were.)

Ladies: you are beautiful without permanently painting your bodies.

“Would a flower be any more beautiful if someone added paint?”

Signed,
--I prefer The Female Body Version 1.0, from the Maker

The tattoo and the cell phone. The plate should be yellowish.

except for the Beach Boys. Rag Doll was done by the Four Seasons.

at the 3rd tree from the left in the background (the slightly reddish yellow one) and carefully squint your eyes, in amongst the leaves you can find Waldo.....

C_K

60's for me, but it's the tattoo. Car is too new. Also . . .

A Ragg Doll is a certain breed of the feline persuasion (cat).

A Rag Doll is a doll that was created with left-over fabric and without a face.

A little trivia:  The original Rag Dolls were from times gone by when people made their own clothes, the leftover fabric or scraps of fabric did not go to waste. Most of the scrap fabric was used to stuff a large quilt or pillow or it was used to make an apron. But the scraps from those projects were often used to make a child's doll. A well- deserved child would often get a rag doll as a gift perhaps once or twice in her childhood life.

The rag dolls were not sewn and did not have a face or hair or clothes like you see in rag dolls today. The first rag dolls were scraps of fabric rolled together and then knotted together to form legs, arms, and a body; hence the rag doll.

In later years rag dolls were made from muslin fabric which is a thin white or off-white color 100% cotton fabric. They were very plain and simple with stuffed arms, legs, body, and head. But still, they had no face or hair. Soon people began to put hair, clothes, and faces on the rag dolls.

When people today hear "Rag Doll" they immediately think of the ever so popular "Raggedy Ann" doll which was invented in 1915. She had brown hair made from yarn, button eyes, and a diamond nose. Rag dolls were made long before "Raggedy Ann" was ever invented.

Hugs,
Ciara


Modified for spelling errors. Urgh!


-- Modified on 10/16/2008 8:37:24 AM

There's a number of things wrong with this photo but the big one is the license plate.  NY plates were an ugly yellow/orange color with black lettering in those days.

wasnt born in the 50's, but wow...they could have gotten a lady without tat's...and yeah...that license plate is the newer one!