from my mom

12 1/2, 14 1/2, 161/2 up to 22 1/2 or 24 1/2. I think they were sizes beyond the normal misses 8-16. they were the one that are now called women's

but it wasn't a size she did

3rd one down - may I bring up Little house on the prairie? That was a big fashion influence

Right! I'd forgotten that Little House was that period, too. Though the scarf tied under the chin still seems more Anatevka than Walnut Grove to me.

I remember that pattern, but I don't ever remember any one actually wearing the scarf

I just found out that my mother is ordering a Turducken for the seder.

There is a company selling a kosher-for-passover Turducken. This is all kinds of wrong.

My mom is now wondering if she has any of those old patterns

Truduken for passover sounds wrong

Wrong, but hilarious.

pattern 9993 was the skirt ( long version) I sewed in Home ec.

OK. So this requires kosher chicken, turkey, and duck, to begin with. All fairly available, though the duck a little less so. Then kashering them. Then deboning then. Then making I guess farfel stuffing -- regular stuffing wouldn't be kosher for Passover. Assembling, and shipping. All within a facility that's been all cleaned for Passover.

I can imagine a company making a kosher Turducken. But I can't imagine that the demand for kosher Turducken is big enough that the company can afford to do all the cleaning and new utensils and stuff required for making kosher for Passover stuff. Most smaller kosher companies will just shut down for the week -- it's mostly just the bigger companies that can afford to make special runs of Passover stuff.

There are pictures of me wearing the matching scarf, but I was very young.

Turducken for Passover? No reason not to have it, I guess. And yet, it doesn't seem right. Possibly delicious, but not right.