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How man Villages residents had White Buck Shoes? (That's the only fad I can think of ;D ;D)

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Black leather bell bottom pants, boy were they hot in the summer!

Also gobs and gobs of angora wrapped around your boyfriends high school ring so it would fit!

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Engineer boots, to go with the Levi jeans and white tee shirt with the Camels or Luckies rolled up in the sleeve.

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White go-go boots. ewwwwww

Madras shorts. double ewwwwww

Bellbottoms -- the bigger the better. yesssssssssss

Nehru jackets (mine was paisley) -- loved it

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Darn it, Nonie,

I was not going to take the time to post this evening. You see, I have really important things to do like watch "Monk" in a few minutes. But when you said that about the boyfriend's ring and the angora, I had a flashback and I could not resist.

Besides, I want to know if high school girls anywhere else in the country did this.

Here goes:

The boyfriend's ring was wrapped with ribbon so that it would fit. But it did not stop there. Wrapping the ribbon through for the few times it took to close the size gap just was not enough for us small town girls.

After we made the size right, we would fold the ribbon back and forth and back and forth, like folding a little fan, until we had a great big thing (for lack of a better word) that could reach from the palm nearly to the top of the first knuckle up if we really had too much time on our hands. (Yes, I know. Groan.)

But Wait! There's More!

After we had created the huge blob of ribbon, we would turn it to stone with layer after layer of clear nail polish. Sometimes we would add glitter or paint on initials or hearts with colored nail polish. We created some of the most hideous art forms you could ever imagine.

Of course, after spending all this time making these messes, we would spend the next day at school showing them off.

What were we thinking?

It's amazing that any of us ever got enough school work done to graduate.

And sometimes you could only get those things off the ring by using a razor blade which could get a little bloody if you were in a hurry.

This token of love could also create drama or injury if you threw it at your boyfriend in one of those breakup fits. And by doing that you had the added fun of thinking about him trying to get the mess off his precious ring.

OK, it's out there. Now you all know more than you ever wanted to know about a fad in my little high school in the midwest. I have not thought about this for many, many years. But this gives me the chance to finally find out if this was some weird tribal custom or if the fad reached from sea to shining sea.

So are you girls going to let me just hang out here in embarrassment or will somebody please tell me that you know exactly what I am talking about. (I guess there's always the delete button - that I finally found.)

BB :)

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Boomer, That was so funny, Thanks for elaborating, I just cant believe what you girls went thru, that is really a labor of love, at least until you threw it back at the guy! lol

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Thanks Nonie,

Between doing all that and teasing my hair to the point where it resembled a motorcycle helmet, I kept pretty busy.

BB

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Boomer/Nonie, sorry I never went steady so I never wore a boy's ring, boo hoo!!!

But, what about the flair skirt with the poodle on it. (I didn't have one, they weren't allowed in da bronx), Also, what about ponytails, ??

Did anyone wear chignons in their hair in the 50's? Or was that a NY thing?

Later on, it was mini skirts and midi skirts and hot pants!!! Remember those? That was more in the 70's but still a long time ago.

Kathie

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For the guys; saddle stitching and pegged pants!

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Oops, did forget the hot pants. How could I????

We used dental floss on the rings, then pink (and it had to be light pink -- no other color was allowed) fingernail polish. I had really small hands so it would take me at least one thing of floss and forever to wrap the dang ring. And, yes, it was fun to think of the work the guy would have to do to get the stuff off if we got into a fight. Course, there was always rewrapping when we got back together.

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Hip hugger bell bottoms for me please

long blonde hair with bangs like Allison McKenzie in my freshman yr
and mini skirts with hems as short as my hair was long

twiggy haircut in 67

white go go boots

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Now, how many remember who Allison McKenzie was?

My hair was long -- almost to knees. Everyone I knew ironed their hair or slept in the frozen OJ cans. Mine was disgustingly straight.

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Red, you just brought back some really funny memories of me leaning over the ironing board and steam ironing my hair to straighten it. ::)

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Jan, you're bringing back some weird memories. Next thing I know, you're going to ask if we inhaled. ;)

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You guys brought back so many good memories..

What about all the fads with the Muscle Cars???http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/sportcar2.gif

Drive In Movies..Beach Parties...8 Track Players...Disco Days...Platform Shoes..Button Earrings...Huck-A-Poo Shirts..Tube Tops..Fake Eyelashes..http://www.millan.net/minimations/sm...tersmileys.gif

BB..I too love Monk...

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I'm waiting for POGs to come back in fashion - still have my son's collection of about a thousand of the things.

And, my wife has the attic full of unopened boxes of Hallmark Christmas ornaments she bought in the 80's that were supposed to help finance our retirement but never will get back half of what she spent on them.

We won't discuss my baseball card collection.

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We used wax to fill our boyfriends ring so that it set up high on our hand. You melted a candle and molded the wax to go into the top of the ring and then put the ring on your finger to mold the wax to fit. Knee high socks with short skirts and big sweaters were also popular at our school.

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We Kansas girls used plain old scotch tape to wrap around our boyfriend's ring...

Not all fads but fond memories:
Skirts with knee socks
Bass penny loafers (with a shiny penny, of course)
Flipped up hair with lots and lots of hairspray
Brush type rollers that hurt like :edit: to sleep on
Pink sponge rollers
Home perms... :yikes:
Portable hair dryers with the hose connected to the cap

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I still have my PEZ despensers :yikes: (just kidding)

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Johnny,

they may be valuable collectables by now, hang onto them! How old are you?(you dont have to answer that, just kidding)

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64 and holding, Nonie!

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Brightspot, I still have my portable hair dryer with the cap attached. Really! Probably from the 60's and the cap has a psychodelic (sp?) flower design on it.

Those rollers were a killer. I still have ones that are the diameter of soda cans, I can't believe we tortured ourselves that way. I'll probably come across them when I'm packing to move to TV and can show them at a monthly meeting.

Did anyone wear stiletto heel shoes with the pointiest toes you could find? No wonder we have feet problems.

Good ideas, come up with more memories.

Kathie :redface:

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Just remembered a "girl" fad at our high school...silver charm bracelets...still have mine, too! We would buy charms to represent anything in our lives (and I mean anything!) just so we could be the one with the most charms. The weight of those bracelets make me tired just thinking about them.

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I just thought about all the old candy..Guess that is not a fad but some great memories..

http://www.millan.net/minimations/sm...ipopsmiley.gifWax Lips..Buttons..Double Bubble..Wax Bottles..(Pez..JohnnyM)..Sugar Daddy's

All the old games...Stoop Ball.(Brooklyn thing..)...Red Light, Green Light...Spalding Balls..Water Guns (My mom stepped on mine every time I bought one, for soaking my brother from head to toe..http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/laugh3.gif

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Donna,

your bringing back so many old memories, wasant life grand! 040

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Noni..
Those days were so simple yet so enjoyable..No school shootings, we had respect for authority..

Sorry Topicop.. :cop:

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yep! and how about Saturday morning cartoons and American bandstand(Dick Clark)? :hot:

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Big hair rollers - absolutely.

And we would find an errand or something to have an excuse to wear the rollers downtown in our small town on Saturday afternoon so that everyone would know we had a date on Saturday night. (like the pharmacist and the butcher really cared)

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Jan, What a fun thread you started! Thankyou! Its even taking my mind off of Veal!!!!!!!!!

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Boomer, I laughed so hard, I was crying.

So true, if you wore the rollers around on Saturday afternoon running errands, everyone knew you were going out on Sat night. It was a status thing especially if you ran into some friends who didn't have rollers in their hair. So funny.

Kath :redface:

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Hey Donna stoop ball was big in the Bronx too. Also, stick ball, punch ball, slap ball and the all time favorite "kick the can". Collecting and trading bottle caps. Chocolate egg creams , malteds and ice cream sundaes in metal dishes at the "candy store". Going to the movies at noon and getting out at 5pm all on .27 cents. The good ole day's indeed!

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Saddle shoes ... I remember being sooo thrilled getting a pair for my 13th birthday. Until then, it was Keds tennis shoes for home, Mary Janes for school.

Easter hats were mandatory. So were gloves for church. I remember having a fit cause I still had to scrub my hands.

Let's see, high school was pin stripe "gangster style" suits. Skirts rolled up the second we got around the corner from home, rolled down when we had to see the dean because our skirts were too short, rolled back up for the next class and so on throughout the day. (We had to kneel on the floor. If our skirts didn't touch the ground, crepe paper was pinned to the hem. Besides looking ugly, we were constantly being stuck by the pins.)

Beehives with petals for the prom. Shoes dyed to match our dress. Going in your boy friend's family car was a big deal. If his folks had to drop you off, it was get out a block before the high school gym and walk the rest. Of course, if he had his own car, you were really hot stuff!

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Remember the small bows with the clip on it, we used to put them in the middle of the teased hair??
What about the half blouses, like shell designs?? Garter belts, there were no panty hose..We all had 45's (records) the record players..I used to take mine on the stoop..LOL..I loved the Theme from Dr. Ben Casey..

Put playing cards on the bicycle spokes with clothes pins to make noise..

We made go-carts out of milk crates and a long board, then we added roller skates on the bottom, we decorated them with bottle caps..

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How could I forget EggCreams??? Every Brooklyn kid grew up on Eggcreams.....http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/yum2.gif

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KathieI,

I love it about the wearing of the rollers downtown being in the big city, too. Who knew?

Redwitch,

About those boys who had their own cars -- Did those cars have their own names that had been lovingly painted on the fenders?

C'mon, all you guys reading this,

Did you have a car with a name? What was it? And why?

Now, I really must leave this computer. I have a date tonight.

Buhbye,
BB

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How about the girls wearing their babushka"s tied up on their chin instead of under their chin to look like really hot stuff! Please please tell me you did that, or did us Chicago girls just think we were really tough?lol

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Babushka tied on the chin? NO WAY -- you'd be a social outcast. The were tied under the back of head. Never ever up front. ewwww

Yes, to the flames and name. Course, we were just thrilled if they had a car that ran!

Hinding in the trunk of the car to sneak into the drive in. Remembering to remove the speaker before leaving. All the "bad" kids parked in the back 2 rows. The "good" ones got the next 3-5 rows and the families got up front.

Never saw the silver spoon thing. Probably a good thing since I know Mom would have killed me.

Girls using masking tape to put their boy friend's initials on their stomach while tanning. Boys using lemon to get the surfer boy bleached look -- even in New Jersey (Springsteen sported that look and I still wonder how he got that curly hair straight!).

Mel's Drive-In with the carphops on roller skates. I was actually one of those!

PE uniforms -- ours was this icky one-piece blue thing that looked like shorts with a short-sleeved top and belt. PE exercises outside, in front of the boys ("We must, we must, we must improve our bust.")

The velour and crushed velvet furniture our moms were sooo proud of. Shag carpeting. Harvest yellow and avocado green kitchens.

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Nonie,

You just had to mention those babushkas.

We wore ours tied in the back, under our hair. And we smalltown girls thought we were "tuff enuff" :)

For some reason, my dad hated it when I wore those babushkas. Poor guy, little did he know. Those babushkas were the least of his worries.

Now, I am going to stop looking at this computer. This thread is way too much fun.

I guess it is time for those of us who know what we are talking about to move to TV if we are not already there. This thread is really some kind of test I think.

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For the guys, remember leisure suits. I liked them, my husband hated them. Remember pink and black color scheme. That was really popular. My brother had duck tails and spent many a day combing them in front of the mirror.
I loved American Bandstand and can still remember the name of my favorite dancer. Kenny Rossi. He was so cool!

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http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...sicalnotes.gif Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine.http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...sicalnotes.gif