A muumuu is a Hawaiian dress, just a big old long baggy print dress, like Mama Cass used to wear, or Hilo Hatty. The go-aheads (maybe it's a Californism) are thongs, flip-flops, clackers, specifically cheap ones. My mom (native N.Cal) called them that in the 60's. RR
mike pritchard wrote: > A few days ago I sent a mail entitled 'American English' which was mangled up > by the cybercafe I was then using, resulting in a mail with a subject but no > content. Here's the content again, more or less. > > I'm reading a short story which includes the following text: "A short dumpy > woman came shuffling down the hallway wearing an orange muumuu and green > go-aheads." Would anyone out there in jonilista land care to explain to me > what this woman was wearing, please. It's from 'Cruising Paradise' by Sam > Shepard, and that's as close as it gets to joni content. > > mike in bcn > > np 'African Blues' by various artistes.
