I think we wore penny loafers to school in the late 50s, in So Cal. For me, that was elementary school.
MaggiRos Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Sylvia Rognstad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> **************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the >> grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
