I'm not Clay, but you brought up a bunch of memories for me. I grew up in that era but had conservative parents. I was never allowed a poodle skirt because it was impractical.
Poodle Skirt -- made of a full circle of felt and decorated with a large felt poodle. Saddle Shoes -- shoes that had two colors of leather, usually brown and white. This website has both poodle skirts and saddle shoes, if you wish to take a look. http://www.anniepoodleskirts.com/shoes.shtml Bobby socks were ankle socks. This was before the days when girls wore nylon stockings to school, and before the days of panty hose. I happened to travel with my grandmother one year, and found out something interesting. The girls in the eastern USA wore their bobby socks with the tops straight up. The girls in the middle of the USA wore theirs turned halfway down, folded down in the middle of the cuff area. The girls in the far west (when I lived) wore their socks rolled down as far as they could roll the cuff area. In the west USA, the saddle shoes weren't quite the rage as other places. White suede shoes were the thing. They were the pits to keep white, so we all carried little bags of chalk dust to hide dirt marks, and had special polish that had to be used constantly to keep the shoes white. I moved this to Chat because it's not Lace. Alice ----- Original Message ---- From: Ilske Thomsen <[email protected]> To: Arachne Arachne <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2009 7:31:04 AM Subject: Re: [lace] did you know this Hello Clay, could you pleas tell me how a poodle skirt, bobby-socks and saddle-shoes look like? We were wearing petitcoats under our dresses or skirts and Ballerina-shoes with white socks. But we didn't hear songs neither from J. P. Richardson nor Richie Valens.ut for sure we knew Buddy Holly and Elvis. Greetings Ilske To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected].
