44. Role of Dress
T his photo of my parents was taken at James Photography in Niagara Falls. As a child, I only remember the studio being on Valley Way; that bit of street that stretches from Queen to Victoria Avenue but before my time, back in 1948, the date of the photo, the studio was located in the James house, fronting on Victoria Avenue with a yard stretching back onto Eastwood Crescent. When I was growing up, the photo occupied a prominent spot – always on display. Keith, my husband refers to the photo as my parents’ wedding picture. Online at the Niagara Falls Public Library Images Database, you can look at the prolific James Photography collection. By way of comparison, the photo of my parents does not connote a wedding. There is no flowing gown or even the inclusion of flowers as in the less elaborate wedding pictures – labelled as such. Anyway, my husband refers to it as a wedding photo; my parents would have wanted a picture to send back to relatives in China showing that my mother – the b...