> My students have been asking some really good questions. These > questions I only know the answers from personal experience. I lived > in Mississippi at the time and do not know if we were really far > behind fashion or not. If you answer these questions, please let me > know your location and the app. year you remember these fashions > were worn to public elementary through high school: > > 1. Mini-skirts: Girl's skirt lengths were measured > 2. Girls' pants: When were girls' allowed to wear pants to school. > Pants-suits, hiphuggers? > 3. Boys' Hair: Allowed to wear long hair > 4. Boy's mustaches: When allowed
(Sorry for the lag, just got home.) Omaha, NE. 1) I don't recall measurements, and one year in JROTC the skirt I was issued as part of my uniform was really short (I'd say mid-thigh, going just off memory). This would probably have been fall 1977-spring 1978. IIRC, there was a really large hem in the skirt, so apparently the last girl to wear it had hemmed it up. I never got in trouble for wearing it, and had the previous girl gotten in trouble I suspect she would have been made to let the hem back out. I've never been a fan of miniskirts even before the weight went on, so I can't be any more precise than that. 2) I remember my grandmother making what she always called "Kabuki pants" for me, and I know I could wear those to school by 6th grade or so. They were basically a wrap pant with _lots_ of overlap and an elastic waistband. Let's see ... that would have been around 1973-74. Before then, I seem to recall skirts or dresses being the rule unless you were in gym class. In 7th grade home ec (around 1974-75), we could choose to make shorts as part of the sewing section. I was on the precision drill team in high school JROTC, and we wore maroon polyester jumpsuits for some of the drill competitions (not issued, though I think we were told which pattern to buy). I can't answer 3 or 4 -- I have one brother, but he was in JROTC as well so had to stay clean-shaven and short-haired. My only interest in other boys when I was in school had to do with the odds they would beat me up or steal from me. Leah _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
