May 13, 2011

Nellie and Mary - First Cousins



The woman on the left in this picture is my granny - my dad's dad's mom. Her name was Nellie Kulchesky Woskowich (nee Kulchesky Khust). She came over from Ukraine when she was a teenager because she was "tired of taking care of the horses."

The other woman in the picture is her first cousin. My dad's notes on the back of the picture are a little cryptic, but I think this is Mary Baranetcka, mother of Josephene. (The spellings of the names are by my dad and I'm not sure if they're accurate or he just didn't know how to spell Josephine. I'm sure Baranetcka could be transliterated a number of ways.) 

18 comments:

  1. ... Josephine ... who?
    Sorry to be clueless, but I'm clueless.
    Nice picture, though.

    Nellie ... looks like she has a spine problem of some sort, Mary looks fine.

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  2. nice picture. I love seeing the way people dressed in the old days.

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  3. The old days? I see hipsters who dress like that now...

    ...well, they wear Doc Martins and pepperpot glasses as well...

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  4. oh well, every trend deserves a comeback... actually, some trends get a comeback without deserving it... but hey, this style could look great with DMs :)

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  5. People don't blouse their shirts out from over their pants any more. We did it back in the 80s, but I don't see people do it much today.

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  6. Don't be so sure...FC is a long way from Raleigh. :D

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  7. People dress that way over there?!!

    Out here it seems like spandex pants are back. And shirts are always untucked unless you're also wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.

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  8. By the way, did I mention that my granny made the best punchkie in the world? To die for.

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  9. I've seen plenty of people with tucked in shirts who blouse them out over their belt. I also see people who tuck in tshirts.

    No spandex (exception cyclists) but there are plenty of Pooh shirts and tube tops where they don't belong...

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  10. what's a Pooh shirt?

    i've always thought colorado dressed differently than the rest of the nation mostly only by folks wearing jeans far more often.

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  11. When your belly is so big that your shirt doesn't meet your pants, let alone overlap.

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  12. LMAO! I've never heard of that term...

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  13. i thought that was a muffin top. that's what it's called around here when your tummy hangs over the top of your pants.

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  14. But a muffin top can be concealed by clothing still. That's the difference.

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  15. i only hear the term used if the muffin top is visible. if it's hidden i suppose it would then be a beer belly.

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  16. yikes. whatever you call it, I have yet to see anyone round here going out like this. seriously gross. big tummy = big clothes to hide it.

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  17. Muffin top refers to your belly. When the shirt doesn't go all the way to the pants then it's a pooh shirt. You can have both, or one and not the other. :D

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  18. that's how I understood muffin top as well - tummy spilling over. I have one of those, but wouldn't dream of airing it in public :)

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