> I remember my older brother's Cool Girlfriend wearing long dresses when I
> was in 8th grade, in 1971.  By the time I was in high school, a year later,
> the pattern companies were showing most of their teen oriented dresses in
> both mini and long lengths.


I wore a "granny dress" to school in about 66 and got told it was a
nightgown and not to wear it to school again.  I folded about 12" of hem
into the thing and wore it to school anyway.


> And then there were the long skirts made by splitting a pair of jeans and
> adding wedges of fabric to the front and back.


I did that when I was in middle school in about '63 because it seemed like a
good idea.  I'd never seen them before, I think.  Must have occurred to
dozens of us across the country.  Now I want some of those elaborately
decorated jeans the Low-Riders wear - when the things aren't falling off -
and make a skirt out of one of those.

-- 
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”   -William
Gibson
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