Letterman Sweaters

In the last little while, my Grandma has asked me to clean out a couple of the closets in her house. We found a lot of suits that no longer fit my Grandpa. We also found a lot of nice dresses that no longer fit my Grandma. The suits are all too small, but unfortunately the dresses are all way to big. My grandma insisted on keeping them all because, "I might get fat again when I'm feeling better." We didn't take very much to the DI, but we did reorganize a few things and put some "new" things toward the front so they can be worn.

The coolest things, I think, we found were some old dresses that belonged to my Great Grandma Fern. My grandma has kept them since Great Grandma died in 1964. The dresses were really cool and looked like ones June Cleaver would have worn. I've always thought that Great Grandma Fern was a bigger lady, like me, my mom, sister, aunts, and cousins. These dresses were very small, though. She may have been tall, but was really skinny. I guess everyone was in that era.

The other cool find was my Grandpa's football letterman sweaters. The blue one is from South High School, class of 1947, and the red one is his University of Utah sweater, class of 1951. Originally, I thought maybe the 51 was his football jersey number, but I'm dumb and it's actually the year he graduated. Unfortunately, there's nothing on the red sweater designating football, the U, or anything other than "51." Weird.

The sweaters were in rough shape, so I asked if I could get them cleaned and Grandma said that'd be okay. They cleaned up pretty cool!We also found some brand new navy blue pants for Grandpa (he only wears khaki) and several brand new lightweight jackets that Grandpa has also never worn. There is also a jar of honey and a glass bottle of (probably well-fermented) apple juice that are glued to shelves by some toxic black substance. They've been there quite a while because the "new" contact paper on the shelves (I don't remember Grandma contact papering these shelves in my lifetime, so it's probably been a few years) was actually cut around these two jars and even tacked up the side of the apple juice.