On Friday 30 March 2007 6:42 pm, Five Rivers Chapmanry wrote: > 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.
In the business world pant suits weren't acceptable for women until the early 90's--when they stopped cutting the pants as though they were 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. Actually, what you're thinking of is now called "boot cut", but yes, it is much narrower than the "bell bottoms" of yesteryear. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank." -- Woody Allen _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
