
What do you see? (patterns, trends, surprises, memories)
Here’s what I detect in the pages of the Sears catalogs from 1962 to 1979:
Consistent rules:
- dressier clothes are more gendered
- girls looking boyish=ok
- babies are not toddlers are not children (toddler images to come)
- pants are for casual wear only, for girls
- flowers are ok for all babies