<p>BTW Crash,
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......and Villager shirtwaists, penny loafers, crewneck and cableneck sweaters and....
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, you were a preppie?
I had friends in college who called themselves preppy reactionaries. Wore stovepipe jeans, danskin leotards with a mantailered shirt over it... and topped it with a blazer and topsiders. Oh, and don't forget the gold insignia ring.. used with sealing wax.</p>
<p>Jmmom, the link that Patsmom provided in post #94...the store has Bosco! Life is good...</p>
<p>Check out this site for baby boomer favorites:</p>
<p>But there's one thing I wanted to add for any girl teens - sort of a sobering thought. I believe we were the generation who invented eating disorders. I remember my bout with bulimia - let's NOT get into the details. I remember the article in Glamour where I read about it for the first time, and that's what got me started. I tell every single teenage girl now to enjoy their juicy selves. If I ever start to tell them about what they are going to turn into they refuse to listen, so I just explain that one day they will celebrate their teenage thighs so might as well do it now while they have them...</p>
<p>I dont remember turtlenecks being mentioned. Have they ever gone completely out of style? I cant think of them without remembering turtlenecks being worn at our junior high with the big chains and peace/love medallions. The school principal soon banned the chains and medallions because we boys kept taking them off and hitting each other with them. Even then I recognized the irony, but we were only playing . :cool:</p>
<p>Remember Nehru jackets? I really wanted one of those, but my parents couldnt or wouldnt pay what they were asking. However, my mother bought one for me when they went on sale (I think they were in fashion for only 17 minutes). Despite the handicaps of being male and in Junior High (or was it high school?), even I knew enough not to wear a Nehru Jacket when no one else was wearing them anymore. It stayed in the closet. That is one of the last true insights into fashion that Ive ever had. Ill admit it now and get it out in the open: Yes, I did own two leisure suits. :o</p>
<p>Remember the dickies, the truncated turtlenecks? My most fabulous outfit was an orange paisley print mini skirt with fish net stockings and an orange jockey cap.</p>
<p>Oops, forgot the poorboy sweater, not orange.</p>
<p>Doddsdad: We were partial to Orange Crush with our moon pies in West Virginia. I have many fond memories of playing tag, rolling down the grassy hills, and chasing lightening bugs (no fireflies) in the summer nights. We also made clover chains and flower dolls with bud heads and blossom skirts. Can't remember the name of that flower; they call it amapola in Puerto Rico. How many gallons of Kool Aid did you consume each summer? Did you pick blackberries wearing flannel shirts and Levies in 90 degree heat so the snakes wouldn't bite you?</p>
<p>Pictures??</p>
<p>Destroyed many years ago, you rascal!</p>
<p>Jym626 - re: Villager shirtwaists.....I'm not sure if I was a "preppy" as I attended public school - however, the town I grew up in is (still) a big-time sailing town, southern manners but northern business conservative kinda place....When I attended high school in the late 60's, drugs still had not filtered into the hallowed halls (well, maybe to the "parking lot" crowd but not to the rest of us...nor, alummom, had anorexia or bulimia though we all ate alot of grapefruit and cottage cheese and drank Fresca's!
And I agree with you about telling all the young girls now to just totally love themselves, flesh and all, because the bloom of youth is simply beautiful - the freshness, the firm skin, the energy. You are all beautiful, take it and run with it!!! Make great memories now to sustain you later in life.<br>
When I look back on photos of me at 16, 18, 25, I think I look really pretty and wonder why I ever wasted one single moment back then fretting about my weight, or "that zit" or that my hair was too straight or I had too many freckles, or I was too big boned. So what!??? IThat was such a waste of energy. And anyway, there is someone for everyone... some men simply love Ruben-esque women, large thighs, stgrong shoulders...thank goodness I married one of them, bless his soul.</p>
<p>Pictures??</p>
<p>tsdad, LOL.</p>
<p>Just close your eyes and picture Mama Cass.....</p>
<p>For the youth here on the forum, circa '78, do you recall Angel's Flight pants on guys - waay too tight, but cute on the bum ;) and Chemin de Fer, outrageously overpriced at $30, jeans?</p>
<p>OMG, dickies and fishnets! I just had a flashback that I had long ago forgotten; thanks pattykk :-)</p>
<p>Chemin de Fer, are those the "French Jeans" we had to put on, unzipped, and wear around that way until they had loosened up a bit, then lie down to get zipped?</p>
<p>Pattykk,
Dickies! Never liked the name, but remember them well. I have to agree with Tsdad. It doesn't seem right that you can mention fishnet stockings without pictures. Many gallons of Koolaid in the summer (Punch, Cherry, and Pink Lemonade in that order), but sweet tea eventually won out, now replaced by "unsweet tea." Why isn't it unsweetened or unsugared tea? </p>
<p>Blackberry picking did require long pants and shirts, even in the heat, but the real hazards were not snakes, it was the chiggers! There was a price to pay for wild blackberries! But the bonus was catching the June bugs. Did you tie a thread to their leg and let them fly in circles as you spun around with them? </p>
<p>Disclaimer: No June bugs were harmed during the writing of this message. In fact, no June bugs were harmed during their brief captivity while we "exercised" them. They invariably broke the thread or the knot loosened.</p>
<p>Chemin de Fer jeans were the ones you had to lie on the benches in the locker room to zip up, the idea being that your stomach was flat and your hip bones would show against the fabric. They were also the first ones with that style designed to ahve the very top button unbuttoned! And the girls now think they thought that up!</p>
<p>I did see a high school girl at the mall here recently, jeans unbuttoned and unzipped and the fabric rolled down to underwear height to hold them up! Who'd have thought that's fashion?!</p>
<p>I'm not sure many non-Southerners will get the following.</p>
<p>I taught at Clemson one year a long time ago. The name of the President was RC Edwards. We went to a reception at his house and we joked that we were introduced to RC and his lovely wife moon pie.</p>