Into the blue
Sep 04, 2019
3 minutes
AS TOLD BY - FRANCES MORTON
My grandmother Nancie Morton made this green dress (01) when she was a young teacher in Auckland in the 1930s. Her mother was a seamstress and taught her to sew. It has incredibly fine embroidery and would have been saved for special occasions.
I remember Grandma kept some dance cards from that era with gentlemen’s names lined up in neat handwriting. She ended up marrying a farmer and living in Papamoa. He died when my
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