The Barefoot Princess

Lavon, my baby sister, was 14 years old when this picture was taken in 1939. It gives a hint of how things looked during the great depression. Not to say she didn’t have nice dresses; she did. But as a young teen-ager, with two older brothers to compete with, she was pretty much a tom-boy. She preferred to go barefoot, wear overalls and be in a good corn-cob fight, to wearing shoes, dresses and playing with dolls. A few years later she was a beautiful young woman married to a handsome young policeman.