The Dress Up Games Box

Growing up we had a box of dress up clothes. We used it for dress up games, but one of our favorite things to do with the box was to make it costumes for other purposes. For example, once we grabbed teddy bears and used yarn to make them puppets. We hung the teddy bear puppets over the banister and controlled them like marionettes. But then we realized that the puppets would be much more fun if we could dress them.

A few minutes later our teddy bear puppets were dressed and ready to go. One wore, or barely kept on, the orange bridesmaid dress my mother wore to my aunt’s wedding in the mid seventies. Another teddy bear wore a fur circle hat that was apparently the height of style in the 1960s. We had such a wonderful time with those old clothes, it’s hard to think that they were actually real at one time – not just fun and games for the rest of us.