West Coast American was different from East Coast American, which I found out in '68. The hippie look was much more accepted in California than it was in Maryland, where I was truly treated like a Freak. Even in San Diego the stares weren't so cold and disapproving, and San Diego (something like America's 20th largest city in those days) wasn't San Francisco or Berkeley - not by a long shot. The neat "preppy" look was much more East Coast and Midwest, even though we had some of that our here.
Oh, I remember it was the beginning of Permanent Press clothes, my mom was > excited about that. Also the beginning of ethnic, hippie stuff--jeans and > Mexican embroidered blouses--at least here near San Francisco. Maybe just > blue jeans would have been "American" in those days. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- Blank paper is God's way of saying it ain't so easy being God. -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
