For those of you that are wondering what I'm talking about: Cotton Togs North was a natural clothing business that my mom and friends ran out of our house when I was about 10ish. My dad was the photographer and my sisters and I and all of our little friends were the models. The catalogs are fantastic and I think one last set exists in my parent's house in Maine. I'll have to digitally upload them someday. Anyway, this dress was one of my favorites and was passed around to all the little girls as our "Laura Ingalls Wilder" dress. Yes, it came with a bonnet. My mom has been saving this dress for years and she brought it for Mathilde this Thanksgiving. Now, Mathilde is in an anti-dress phase these days, (much to my chagrin), but she loves this dress!! It's slightly too long on her but I think she wore it about five days in a row around the holiday and every few days it appears again. Not that she knows who Laura Ingalls is, but it makes me smile every time she puts it on!
(It's almost like she's posing for a catalog here!)
