All through my childhood my sisters and I would play Dress Ups with our friends.

We would use our imaginations and get clothes and arrange them in such ways that they were part of the game, or like characters in movies, history or TV that we had seen.

We didn’t use makeup that I can remember, except to make clown faces and so on, silly fun stuff. And we would make masks to wear as some famous character, or from someone from history who had become a hero for the people, that sort of stuff.

It was all innocent fun.

To make the scene we would also dress-up the lounge or whatever room we were playing in or outside in the back yard, and we would make huts from whatever was handy, boxes, sheets, wood, whatever we could find and our imaginations did the rest.

My mother went through a fun sewing stage and she made me a Zorro cape, a Daniel Boone hat made of Possum skin and a Daniel Boone jacket complete with awesome tressesls.