As someone who grew up in that era, I can say the 'pant suit' wasn't
really acceptable until the late 60s. I remember even in the very early 70s,
in fact, I think it was 1970, girls fighting for the right to wear pants to
high school. We did a 'sit in' protest. Ended up winning favour. But we
weren't allowed to wear jeans.
Well, we fixed that the following year. Cause we had another
peaceful demonstration and won the right to wear jeans, and by then the
jeans were huge bell bottoms, not what is called a bell bottom today.
Nu-unh. They were tight to the knee and then flared out hugely so that when
you walked there was a real ding-dong effect. And then they became
hip-huggers. Oh so risque! We got in all kinds of trouble. And then the
braless thing happened, and my step-father fetched a fit! So did the
teachers.
By 1971 or 1972 (grade 10 for me) the pant suit was being worn by
those of us who considered ourselves very fashionable. I had several. One
which my mother made in a gorgeous canary yellow crepe polyester with wide
white collar, sort of a tunic dress, quite short, and bell bottom pants. The
other was a dishy number purchased at a very fashionable women's clothing
retailer, in royal blue with a tiny white dot, very fitted bodice with a
wide placket front, tiny loop buttons, v neck, puffy sleeves, enormous bells
cut on the circle and very tight at the knee. The tunic was about mid-calf,
slit to the waist, almost like a frock coat. I had blue suede espadrilles
and I thought I was the cat's youknow. Lol!
Regards,
Lorina
Five Rivers Chapmanry
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