I remember those Villlager shirtwaists. No one was wearing them in
CA where I went to high school but I recall that when I went on to
college there were girls in my rooming house from the east coast who
were all wearing Villager style clothes, along with penny loafers,
which no one in CA wore either. It was the preppy look which, I
don't think, ever made its way to the west coast.
Slvia
On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:25 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Ah, but the phrase that I was responding to was that "much of what
we think
of as the 1960s really happened in the 1970s," not necessarily
just the
hippies of the 1960s.
And certainly things happened in different places at different
times. For
instance, no one wore a grannie dress at my suburban St. Louis high
school
until after I graduated, in 1969. When my classmates weren't wearing
Villager shirtwaists, they did often tend toward the "mod" look--
my first pair
of pantyhose (as opposed to stockings) were pale orange and had a
diamond
pattern. Double-breasted, so-called "Edwardian" tuxedos were the
style of
choice for many of my male classmates at the prom, again in the
spring of
1969, or so I understood from their discussion--I didn't go (I wasn't
anti-prom--I couldn't get a date, and one didn't go without one).
I went to a
private liberal arts college that had a dress code, skirts only,
right up until
the fall of 1969, when I started. So no one wore jeans to class
until
then.
Ann Wass
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