sue: no doubt.

Is that ever a reminder that you are advancing in age also.

As for cocktail dresses, I don’t think that I, nor any of my four sisters, nor my mother ever had one. Certainly we had, at anytime, at least one dress that could be worn to functions to which some women wore cocktail dresses; but a cocktail dress, per se, I don’t think so. Our dresses were more versatile. Seems we wanted them that way. Or as the women’s magazines say, wear a black suit to work, change the blouse for a lace camisole, put on fancier earrings and necklace, shoes with higher heels, and you’re all set for the after work party. But my daughters and nieces all seem to have cocktail type dresses, by which I mean black, bare shouldered things. They wear them to high school proms, college dances, and all types of weddings. In fact, at the last few weddings I attended, black cocktail type dresses seemed to be de rigueur for the bridesmaids.

I just got off the phone with my sister, mother of two, grandmother of one, who had a long career as social worker for the state of Michigan. “Cocktail dress,” she said, “Now why would I have wanted one of those?” But her daughter has at least one.