First Love

This group is from one collector from Corpus Christi, Texas. She purchased these dresses to wear to her daughters' cotillions. There are some who feel she might have been trying to "out dress" her daughters at the balls. Her husband was very, very wealthy. They were married for a very long time, before finally divorcing.

Her high school sweetheart was from Germany, and her parents would not let them date, because they feared the two getting too serious, while he would have to return to Germany. Which he did. However, he returned to the US, some thirty years later, looking for her. She was of course, now divorced, and her children grown. So she was selling everything, and moving back to Germany with her first love. A typically romantic, happily ever after story.

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