Photo: Courtesy Mark Demchak
From left: Mark Demchak, Doug Walton, Eli Demchak (center) and Kimberly Demchak.Courtesy Mark Demchak
It was Richard who first purchased the outfit as he and Geraldine prepared to welcome Doug, born in 1959. Geraldine thought the outfit was “cute” and ended up dressing all three of her son’s — Doug, Phillip, and Brian — in it when they were born.
“Then the outfit just sort of got handed down to the next generation,” Mark tells PEOPLE. “I thought it was really sweet. My family doesn’t really have a tradition like that so I thought it was pretty cool.”
Courtesy Mark Demchak
Mark says he and Kimberly didn’t even know about the tradition until about three weeks before Eli’s birth, when Doug shared the story with them.
“They’ve been holding onto it for awhile, its been in a little zip-lock back,” Mark says of Doug and Doug’s wife, Laurie. “I think they were expecting us to have a child at some point. If we have another boy, or somebody has a child in the next couple years, we’ll do the same thing.”
From left: Doug, Richard, and Brian Walton.Courtesy Mark Demchak
Mark says Eli looks adorable in the “little track suit.” And although he thought the story was sweet, he never expected the family’s tradition to garner so much attention, he says.
“It’s somehow stayed together in a plastic baggie for 60 years,” Mark gushes. “They’ve done a good job of preserving it.”
source: people.com
