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Re: Classroom Fads
By: Titanica Date: November 24, 2020, 5:25 pm
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When I was in high school, Fair Isle sweaters were the thing.
Now, I went to a Catholic high school, so we had to wear
uniforms. And one year (I think maybe junior year?) our
principal banned polo shirts - we had to have buttoned-down
dress shirts/blouses. Well, someone decided the way around that
was to wear a polo shirt under a dress shirt. On top of a
turtleneck. All under a Fair Isle sweater. And we had to put
our uniform blazers or sweaters over all that, because they were
required if you were in the hall. (We could take them off
during class, but had to have them on while in the hall between
classes).
So it was very common to see a girl wearing a turtleneck, with a
polo shirt over it, with a dress shirt over that, with a sweater
over that, and then a blazer.
To add insult to injury, the principal had a constant fight to
get people to properly wear their blazers. You would see people
(mostly girls) with them only halfway on - like, up to the
elbows, with the top of the blazer across the middle of their
back. Presumably, the blazer was uncomfortable. But maybe,
just maybe, if you didn't have 4 or 5 shirts on already, the
thing would be more comfortable.
I guess it was more a rebellion.
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Re: Classroom Fads
By: Kimberami Date: November 25, 2020, 9:47 am
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Flannel shirts were everything when I was in high school. Combat
boots were also very popular. I had to laugh when my DD had to
have a pair of Doc Martin boots and stole her dad's flannel
shirt last year.
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Re: Classroom Fads
By: lowspark Date: March 31, 2021, 7:37 am
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=663.msg60605#msg60605
date=1606086587]
I think socks are always a thing. We were big into the pompom
socks. I'm not actually sure they even made ankle socks for
girls without pompoms. When DD was in middle school, they all
wore mismatched socks. I never noticed till one day DD was
having a fit because the only 2 clean socks she could find
matched. ::)
Other fads in elementary school (70's) were knee high white
boots and mood rings. One year, we all seemed to have one year
the small purses with the wooden handles and the fabric covers
that you could button on and off. I have no idea what they were
called. And of course bell bottoms and decal tshirts.
For 6th grade, the big rage was gaucho pants. The first day of
7th grade, half the girls were in slim leg jeans (flared had
still been more popular the year before) and the skinny gold
stretch belts. And our jeans were rolled at the cuff to show off
our YoYo shoes! Loved my YoYo's. They were platforms with a
whole in the heel. 8th grade was the year of the Jordache jeans
tucked into boots. Very irritating to live in Texas where it is
really too hot to wear boots until November.
[/quote]
I know this thread is old but I only just came across it.
Yes to the bolded above in Hmmm's post. We called those white
boots "go-go boots".
In sixth grade, desert boots were all the rage. By the time my
mother finally agreed to let me have a pair, it was too late and
there were none left to be found in shoe stores. So I missed out
on that trend!
The year that gaucho pants came into fashion, they didn't
actually come to Houston till maybe midway through the fall
semester. But there was this one girl at school whose mother
would take her to New York every year before school started to
buy The Latest Fashions. This was early 70s where NY would get
all that way before we would here. She showed up to school in
gaucho pants and, well, we were all kind of snickering about
them... but maybe by a month later, we were all wearing them.
The thing I remember from elementary school was rings made out
of telephone wire. I don't know how we obtained the wire, but
we'd make them out of many different color wires. They looked
just like this:
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Re: Classroom Fads
By: vintagegal Date: March 31, 2021, 7:44 am
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I graduated HS in 1974. Looking at the year book, 95% of the
girls and 50% of the boys had the same hair style - long,
straight, parted in the middle. I was a rebel, wavy hair, parted
on the side. ;)
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