Re: [h-cost] Hippie sightings...

2005-09-02 Thread Penny Ladnier
Carol, Williamsburg: Colonial dress (Goof-ball that is where I met you! Remember my missing night-gown!) I remember seeing you dressed to the T for a dance with patches on your bosom! And what a handsome dandy your husband was! I always think of you two in costume as Mr. & Mrs. Williamsburg

Re: [h-cost] Hippie sightings...

2005-09-02 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
I just have to laugh when you place Berkeley in the sixties with historic dress. I was one of those Berkeley hippies of the '60s and I didn't realize I was considered historic! Well, a friend of mine (same age) was speechless when her son was studying the Hippie period in school in history

Re: [h-cost] Hippie sightings...

2005-09-02 Thread Sylvia Rognstad
I just have to laugh when you place Berkeley in the sixties with historic dress. I was one of those Berkeley hippies of the '60s and I didn't realize I was considered historic! Sylrog On Sep 2, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Carolyn Kayta Barrows wrote: Maybe because they were out of style by 190

Re: [h-cost] Hippie sightings...

2005-09-02 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
Maybe because they were out of style by 1906? Or maybe because there were so few wearers of hoop skirts in California, compared to in other parts of the country. :-) It's interesting how an era is frozen into/associated with the identity of certain places. There's a good question,

[h-cost] Hippie sightings...

2005-09-02 Thread Carol Kocian
I have to laugh. A real Hippie, in person - like wow, man. Oh, yes! It was around 1967. And, of course, I was warned to stay away from them. :-) I saw dozens of Hippies in person before I ever saw one in a hoop skirt. Maybe because they were out of style by 1906? :-) It's