One of my favorite authors. Graduated high school in '64. I think shge may be referring to the more casual style of dress the Americans had even then. Pants instead of skirts or dresses. My cousin went to South America to visit classmates, and they were much more formal/conservative in their fashions.
Genie in St Louis, MO. -----Original Message----- >From: Claire Clarke <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 26, 2009 7:16 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [h-cost] Dressing like an American > >Hi all, > > Some of you who were alive back then might not consider this historic >costume, but I thought this was a good place to ask this question. I was >recently reading 'The Gabriel Hounds' by Mary Stewart, which is set in >Lebanon in, I think the '60's (1960's that is). The narrator is English but >has been living in America and at one point describes herself as 'dressing >like an American'. I was curious how differently American and English women >might have dressed at this time. Is this another way of saying that she >dressed informally? Or wore trousers a lot? > > > >Claire > >_______________________________________________ >h-costume mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
