More on 60s clothes in the Mid-West As i said, i went to a girls prep school north of Chicago, 1965-67. We wore our own clothes. My advanced math teacher used to make negative remarks about my clothes and color combinations to the whole class.
For example, I wore knee-high orange suede boots, a wide-wale burnt-orange corduroy hip-hugger mini-skirt, a wide burgundy leather belt, a magenta nylon knit turtleneck (really nice, fine, and silky), and a silk scarf that was all those colors and a few more, held in by a hand-painted wooden finger ring that was red-violet with tiny flowers of yellow and white dots with black centers. Pantyhose were not real common, and were boring flesh tones, and tights for adults didn't exist (in the US tights are quite opaque and usually colorful). I wore a garter belt and stockings. Sometimes i'd wear a different color stocking on each leg... Anyway, all senior girls were required to give a "Senior Talk" to the whole school. As i mentioned, i was often in trouble for non-conforming behavior. So i borrowed clothes from friends - and the day of my talk i was totally conservative and preppy: -- cranberry wool A-line skirt, -- cranberry and white striped long-sleeved button-down oxford cloth shirt, -- cranberry pull-over V-neck fine wool sweater, -- cranberry cable-knit knee socks, -- and cranberry suede loafers. The Head Mistress saw me walking into chapel to give my talk and told me not to. This was either late 66 or early 67. I was the only senior not to give a talk. Anahita _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
