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Looking Back - Just a Boomer Moment In Time - Speaking of Styles
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by Paula Ezop
TheSyndicatedNews columnist
Paula M. Ezop writes a weekly spiritual/commentary column for Blue Ridge Today, a South Carolina publication. Her most recent book, Spirituality for Mommies is soon to be released.
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Looking back…just a Boomer moment in time…
And, oh we were so cool...
Styles are certainly something that Boomers could spend hours talking and laughing about. Although when we were in high school what ever we wore we knew we were cool…
In high school the girls wore wool straight skirts and matching sweaters. Plaid pleated skirts were also popular. What I wouldn’t have given for an angora sweater!
Then there were ski sweaters, mohair sweaters, and cable knit sweaters. There were scarves you tied around your neck, collars that accessorized any sweater, sweater clips that held a sweater on your shoulders (you didn’t have to put your arms through the sleeves), clutch purses, large handbags, wool socks, bobby socks, knee socks, nylons…
Girls had to have the right shoes with every outfit too. There were flats that had to match your purse, saddle shoes (black and white were cooler than brown and white), white bucks, and penny loafers.
I don’t remember too much about guys shoes other than they wore tan bucks and wingtips.
I just love it when we pull out our picture albums and my daughter and her husband spend hours commenting and laughing at our hairstyles and our dress. I just smile and think to myself, “Yahhh…but we were cool…”
In the 60’s bell-bottoms were in about the same time that pork chop sideburns were all the rage. When I look at my husband in his striped bell-bottoms and his mustache and pork chop sideburns I can almost hear the Rock and Roll playing in the background.
There were tie dyed shirts, Woodstock, Flower Children, and Hippies, we lived through it all.
When we moved into the workplace, we never heard of business casual. Men who worked in an office wore a suit or dress pants, dress shirt and most definitely a tie. Blue-collar workers wore work pants and a work shirt, definitely no tie.
Blue jeans were forbidden at the workplace, and the only gym shoes we knew about were high tops, which made no fashion statement and were strictly for the gym floor.
Women’s fashions in the workplace were fun too. It was polyester city. Hard to believe now but some offices wouldn’t allow the women to wear slacks, only skirts and dresses were appropriate. Then when they decided it was all right to wear pants it had to be a pants suit.
Fads went from A-line dresses, moo-moos, to mini skirts, and hot pants.
We didn’t have all these super lightweight fabrics, our winter coats weighed a ton. It wasn’t cool to button your coat, wear a hat in the winter, and you never ever wore boots, unless of course they were white Go-Go Boots!
Hairstyles were interesting too. The guys had DA’s, buzz cuts, the wet look and the dry look. They let their hair grow long and wore ponytails.
Girls had the bouffant, the pixie, the straight look, and the beehive. We had to deal with perms, pin curls, brush rollers, sponge rollers, and plastic rollers. We ratted our hair, taped our hair, straightened our hair, and colored our hair. We had hair sprays and hair gels.
We didn’t have blow dryers and the natural look wasn’t in.
I guess every generation makes a statement…we sure made our share of statements…here’s to the fashion statements that we made! Our kids even think we were cool…
Looking back…just a Boomer moment in time…
And, oh we were so cool...
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Published: Jul 16,2008 15:29
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