Catalog Day!

When I was a wee girl I used to walk ten miles to school in the snow with a hole in my boot and no mittens.  How's that for a long sentence?  Truth-be-told, I NEVER did that.  Not a single mile, nor a flake of snow.

But, it is true that in August I was always the first in the family to run to the mailbox to see what the mailman had brought.  I wondered which would arrive first each year.  Would it be "Aldens",  "Spiegel",  "Sears", or " JC Penney"?  If you are familiar with those then you probably remember receiving the Fall & Spring catalogs each year.  My favorite was the Fall one, since it arrive in late Summer when I had lots of free time.  I spent countless hours on a quilt out under the big Elm tree (Geez, I really do sound old!) looking through the catalogs picking out pretty dresses and such, hoping I could talk my Mom into ordering them for me.  Mom made most of my clothes, but what she didn't make was ordered from the thick pages of one of the catalogs.  Looking back, I'm not sure why we ordered clothes, rather than shopping in stores, but that was the case until I began high school. I just assumed that's what everyone else did too.

Do you remember any of those catalogs?

Do you do any clothes shopping from catalogs now?