I never understood why women were making fancy dresses and bonnets for concrete geese. There were all over! Often the geese had an old fashioned dress and a poke bonnet. I haven't seen one in a long time.
I did a quick Internet search and learned that the fad actually began in the 1980s in the area from Pittsburgh south to Kentucky and spread from there.
I found an Atlantic article from 2018 "Nothing Says Midwest Like a Well-Dressed Porch Goose" by Julie Beck that informs the demand for clothes was met by start-ups like Goose Clothes Galore. Then the pattern companies caught on.
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| Simplicity pattern for lawn geese clothes |
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| Miles Kimbal geese outfit |
I found a Prairie costume along with all kinds of dresses at The Depot that felt like the classic clothes I recall seeing.
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| clothes from The Depot |
If you have a goose and don't want to dress it you can learn how to repaint it at Petticoat JUNKtion.
Our little two-square-mile suburban town is writing ordinances for fowl keeping, so I guess this is the new trend: why have a fake fowl when you can get the real thing? We will have a limit of four hens per household and strict rules for housing and cleanup.
Now I wonder if they have patterns for chicken dresses...
The History of Goose Lawn Ornaments
https://www.ehow.com/info_8059753_history-goose-lawn-ornaments.html
They probably do have chicken dress patterns somewhere. At least they have a lot of building plans for fancy tiny houses for them. :) Your post made me laugh—and also brought to mind the lawn ornaments of people bent over in their gardens so just their legs and bottoms showed. I’m glad those tackies are gone. On another topic, thanks for all of your book reviews. I’ve been saving them on my phone and checking my library’s website to see if they are in the catalog. Thanks to you, I always have a book in the cue now.
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