Mice wear bows too

Today is Minnie Mouse's birthday.  Etsy shop is ThreeDoesBows.

Minnie is the original Queen of the Bow, and she didn't even start wearing a hair bow until the 1940s, with the end of the pie-eyed era.  Before then she was a flapper type, with patched bloomers, ridiculously big shoes, and sometimes a hat.  I'm not really sure when the red polka-dotted dress and bow became her thing, but by the time I was around that was how I knew Minnie the best.  One of my college friends painted her nails red with white polka dots because she too associate the pattern with our beloved rodent girl, and I had another friend (a teacher and thus an older woman than me) who often wore a red dress with white polka dots to church.  She also had Minnie on her watch, and I loved that because it made me think of my dad (he had a watch with Daffy Duck on it).  That teacher didn't live to be very old; she sadly died of ALS when I was in college.  Her grave marker has a silhouette of Minnie Mouse on it.

Truth be told I am not Minnie Mouse's biggest fan.  Y'all would never know it from the bows I wore on August 15th and 16th, but...well, I don't hate Mickey and Minnie.  I think they're cute, in fact.  I'm just not obsessed with them like some of my Disney-freak friends are.  When it comes to classic Disney characters I relate most to Donald Duck (in temperament) and to Goofy (in flakiness).  Seriously, Donald and Goofy were polar opposites in the personality department, and yet they seemed to get along pretty well, though admittedly Mickey was usually there too.  If I know Donald like I do Mickey probably had to serve as a buffer between him and Goofy.

Sigh...after awhile one runs out of things to say about Disney.  Mickey and Minnie were big parts of my life growing up, but I can't say much about either of 'em that someone else hasn't said.  

Love,
RagingMoon1987