Martha, You are a little ahead of me.? I was in high school when I had the blouse with eggplants.? It had an olive-green background and matching skirt.? I had a sweater to match the skirt.? Now I know that was probably not a good color for me - and I know why my mother would never let me have the "burnt orange" outfit.?
I had scads of really neat knee socks - all different patterns and colors. When I left for college, my mother went through my stuff and gave most of them away. Imagine my disappointment when I asked her to send them to me when the weather turned cold!? She did send me my old black loafers to wear for band.? In high school, I wore saddles with the knee socks. I remember polishing them every morning before school. They stayed on better than loafers - I have skinny feet.? (And were more practical for walking up the driveway from the bus stop - especially in the snow.) My freshman year room-mate was barely 5' and I'm 5'10".? She wore my tennis dress to the President's Tea.? These younger girls don't realize what they missed! By the way, we took our younger son to Lynchburg College this past weekend for Governor's School.? He'll be there all month.? Catherine -----Original Message----- From: Martha Kelly <marthake...@nyc.rr.com> To: h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 2:42 pm Subject: [h-cost] Virginia Women's Colleges in the 1960's - definitely pre-hippie Hi Kate (Sweetbriar) and Catherine (Radford) I was at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1964-1966. Then I went to Northwestern. Because I was there such a brief time and because new clothes were bought for college, I have all sorts of snapshots of my friends and myself that I can nail to a short period of time. I do wish we could post pictures here. Absolutely NO pants of any kind allowed on front campus or in class. For 8:00 AM French class we rolled up the legs of our pajamas and hid them with our London Fog raincoats. The most popular footwear was Bass Weejuns (Scotch grain). Weejuns were spiffier than Old Maine Trotters. In high school we put pennies in the brown loafers and nickels in the black ones. By 1964 this was uncool. We wore our loafers with knee socks or with panty hose. Keds were good for summer. They were white canvas and had a blue label on the back of the heel. I had a few real Villager outfits, but mostly copies. The popular style was an A-line heathery skirt with a matching cable-knit sweater. You wore this on a casual date and to "mixers." The appropriate length was mid-knee. Everyone wore printed cotton blouses. These were often floral, but sometimes whimsical. I had one with eggplants. These usually had Peter Pan collars and roll-up sleeves. They were worn with solid-color skirts. Cardigans were worn, unbuttoned, over blouses. Many were hand made. We were all busy knitting. Fair Isle sweaters were greatly admired. Everybody had a yellow slicker with a hood. Hoods in general were popular, but garments with them weren't called "hoodies." Madras was everywhere. My Madras dress had a hemp belt. In fact, I had hemp belts in all colors. The front part was always leather and the buckle was metal. I had a Granny dress made out of a mustard-colored cotton with a tiny print. It was empire waisted and almost touched the floor. It was trimmed with rickrack. This style was a new concept in Virginia in the mid-60's. Very daring. For church, and for the President's Tea, we wore little white gloves. Our purses matched our heels. We wore pantyhose and always wore a slip. Pettipants were around, too. There were no tattoos. Not much nail polish. Ears were not pierced. We all smoked - absolutely everybody. Martha PS By 1969 I was working at Actor's Theater in Louisville and buying myself 1930's velvets at the Salvation Army. ************************************** _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
