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Speaking as a vintage pram collector, I believe this is a Peg Perego pram style stroller. The two design elements that appear to be from Peg Perego of Italy are the curved back rest and the sun hood with the bend in the frame. Most similar US made strollers of the period had flat back rests and straight, horizontal sun hoods. Nice looking stroller and the baby looks very contented in the comfortable pram. :)

But that is more due to the beautiful and comfortable diaper and rubber pants

Paula Stafford was born in Willaura, Country Victoria, in 1921. She moved into Melbourne City at thirteen years of age to attend school. Originally, she wanted to be an architect. However, her teacher advised her to consider a more ‘feminine’ line of work. Paula had always enjoyed making clothes for her dolls, and herself, so she went on to receive Diploma in Fashion Design at Melbourne Technical College. Paula moved to Queensland in 1939, stationed as an army nurse in Toowoomba during World War II. It was there she met her husband Beverly. He was a Gold Coast local, so in 1943 when the two wed, they returned to the coast to live in an old kiosk on Main Beach. By 1948, Paula and Bev had four children – Frances, Susan, Sibyl, and Michael – and were running a beach-hire service, renting umbrellas and surf floats. They relocated and built a house on Cavill Avenue, Surfers Paradise, in 1949. Frenchman Louis Rèard is widely credited with inventing the skimpy bikini in 1946. However, Paula had been cutting swimsuits in half for herself since 1936 for comfort and calling it a two-piece. She wore her sliced bathers to the beach and made some for her daughters too. Tourists and locals, who would frequent their store to hire beach products, saw Paula and her children clad in her innovative designs and asked her to make some for them. In under a month in 1949, Paula’s business grew from one machinist to produce garments, to fourteen – a number that would eventually rise to over sixty. However, in a still rather conservative culture, Paula’s two-piece was met with a slew of disapproval. Paula recounts in an article how the Catholic Mothers club had said, “we definitely think bikinis lower the resistance of young people to temptation”. The Surfers Paradise Roman Catholic Priest Father J.N Shannon told news reporters that, “the bikini type of costume often worn here lowers the dignity of Christian womanhood”. On Bondi Beach, a Local Government act was in place to ensure that swimwear remained ‘decent’. The act stated that swimsuits should cover the whole front of the body, have straps to keep in place the garment, and have legs at least three inches long. Archival ABC footage shows how the ‘Beach Inspectors’ would walk around with measuring tapes to assess women’s swimsuits. In 1945, when a young woman donned a bikini along the popular beach strip, infamous Beach Inspector Aub Laidlaw told her she was ‘indecently’ attired and ordered her to put on more clothes. The woman was charged with offensive behavior. In a moment of what Paula called “righteous indignation”, she spoke to a friend at the local paper. The day after Anne’s run-in with Moffat, Paula sent five models down to the same beach, all dressed in her bikinis. It attracted an immense amount of media coverage, and Paula received a plethora of orders. Despite the raised eyebrows, Paula continued selling and heavily promoting, her two pieces. Outnumbered by the women donning them, eventually, the local priest, police, town clerk and Mayor declared their approval of the swimwear, and Beach Inspector Johnny Moffat publically stated that he would no longer object to a women’s attire. By 1967, the aforementioned Aub Laidlaw even attended – and approved of – a fashion parade of Stafford’s swimwear. Paula had championed a movement for women – more than simply providing sparser beach attire and a better tan, bikinis represented a change in society’s ideals, and empowered women in their attire choices. Surfers Paradise became the home of the bikini, which bolstered tourism as well as trade. Source: thefressh.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/a-fashionable-history-...

I've been puzzling over this one. I would expect to find her in the social columns. My best hypothesis is that Bain got the name mixed up. A Florence Appleton married a James Clarke Milholland in June 1919 and had a son, Peter in 1920. Florence's Findagrave site. She had a second marriage to a John Dodd in 1937. See www.nytimes.com/1937/10/03/archives/mrs-milholland-bride-... Findagrave site for Florence's son, Peter. Wedding announced in New-York Tribune., May 28, 1919, page 13, column 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-05-28/ed-... and in the New York Sun., May 11, 1919, Section 4, Page 2, Image 34 -- photo upper left, in text in right-hand column towards bottom. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-05-11/ed-... The photo is a possible match, but not a certainty. Another photo, again a possible match, is at books.google.com/books?id=zAZUAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA46&am...

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