{"id":40789,"date":"2017-08-16T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=40789"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:14:10","slug":"best-friends-dress-daughters-granddaughters-dress-1st-day-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/relationships\/best-friends-dress-daughters-granddaughters-dress-1st-day-school.html","title":{"rendered":"Best friends dress their daughters, granddaughters in same dress on 1st day of school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best friends dress their daughters, granddaughters in same dress on 1st day of school<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Best friends dress their daughters, granddaughters in same dress on 1st day of school:- Three Florida women and their families are living out the real-life version of \u201cThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants\u201d — a book-turned-movie about best friends who share a pair of jeans — with a dress they affectionately call \u201cthe little blue dress.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The women, Jody Gleason, Anne Reynolds and Joyce Johnston, who all live near West Palm Beach, have been best friends for more than 40 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

They have shared everything in their lives, including the blue dress that has been worn by their children and grandchildren on the first day of school since the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dress was first purchased by Joyce Johnston\u2019s mother at a Polly Flinders store in Lantana for Johnston\u2019s daughter, Nicole, to wear on her first day of school in 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother was always a snazzy dresser so she bought this dress and gave it to Nicole to wear on her first day of school,\u201d Johnston, 67, who lives in Lantana, told ABC News of the less than $10 dress.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Nicole was done with the dress, Johnston passed it on to Gleason for her daughter, Colleen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a cute dress and she looked cute in it so I had Colleen wear it on her first day of school in 1987,\u201d Gleason said, adding that Colleen, now 35, just received her doctorate and donned a doctoral robe that, by chance, had stripes the same color as the blue dress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gleason returned the dress to Johnston, who in turn gave it to Reynolds, who dressed her daughter Allison, now 31, in it for her first day of school in 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were friends that shared everything — child care, outgrown clothes,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cAt this point, Colleen had worn the dress and the logical thing was to pass it down to Allison, who is a few years younger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Reynolds, 61, held onto the blue dress and passed it down to her granddaughter, and Allison\u2019s niece, LilaAnne, now 10, who wore the dress in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dress was then returned to Johnston, who watched as her granddaughter, and Nicole\u2019s daughter, Katie, wore it in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother would be so proud of her dress,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cShe would never have thought the dress would go through so many hands. She would just say, \u2018How cute is that?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The blue dress has hung in Johnston\u2019s home since Katie wore it in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnston\u2019s 11-year-old grandson, Andrew, told her if he has a daughter one day, he\u2019ll let her wear the dress on her first day of school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before that, Reynolds has two more granddaughters who will be ready to wear the dress in a few years and Johnston\u2019s daughter has a niece who will also soon be old enough to wear \u201cthe little blue dress” to school.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re endearing, all these wonderful traditions,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cI think they\u2019re fading in today\u2019s families and you just have to keep them going.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so important to look back and see where you\u2019ve been and where you are now and what the future holds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/best-friends-dress-daughters-granddaughters-dress-1st-day\/story?id=49206049<\/span><\/p>\n

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