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Just to show you how times and attitudes have changed, please allow me to relate an incident from the '60s that was described to me by one of the older female faculty members:
Female Principal: Miss X, are you wearing a slip today, in accordance with my faculty dress code? Female Teacher: I'm wearing a half-slip, Miss Connolly. Female Principal: You know that I require my teachers to wear a FULL slip underneath their dress. I will cover your class while you go home in order to garb yourself properly. Female teacher: (meekly) Yes, Miss Connolly.
Her description of this incident from the 1960s was prompted by a "clothing crisis" in the school during the late '70s, namely the "shameless" wearing of slacks by some female faculty members. Times had changed, and when the principal demanded that female faculty members wearing slacks go home in order to change their mode of dress, most of them pointed out that there was nothing in print stating that women could not wear slacks, and some of the more assertive women defied the Principal.
That clothing...crisis...soon evaporated.
Just about the only skirts I ever see on women in my area today are the skirts the Mennonite women in this area wear. Some of the women at my bank wear skirts but just as many wear a nice pair of dress slacks and a dress blouse. Pants of one sort or another are so much more comfortable -- and a whole lot warmer in the winter. (y)
Would many people today know what a "matchbook" is? In past decades a free book of matches was good advertising. Maybe the smoke shops still have them.....????
Just about the only skirts I ever see on women in my area today are the skirts the Mennonite women in this area wear. Some of the women at my bank wear skirts but just as many wear a nice pair of dress slacks and a dress blouse. Pants of one sort or another are so much more comfortable -- and a whole lot warmer in the winter. (y)
Would many people today know what a "matchbook" is? In past decades a free book of matches was good advertising. Maybe the smoke shops still have them.....????
They're all over the place. They're not as rare as a roll of caps or candy cigarettes.
"flats" - womens' shoes with no heel as opposed to "high heels".
What else do you call shoes with minimal heels?
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"paper back"
Also still in wide use, although now sometimes called "soft cover".
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Prior to that, as an elementary school student, I used to look forward to the quarterly opportunity to order paperback books through Scholastic Book Service.
Yes! The distribution of the SBS flyer was the highlight of the semester. I still have a few of the books I bought in elementary school, and if I see them at second hand shops I pick them up. My niece still has my copy of "If You Lived In Colonial Times".
I'm not claiming to be an all-knowing expert on this topic, but...do women actually wear slips in 2017?
I don't know any who do, not even those who still wear skirts. At one time I had at least half a dozen full slips and that many half slips but that was 50 years ago.
I don't know any who do, not even those who still wear skirts. At one time I had at least half a dozen full slips and that many half slips but that was 50 years ago.
Thank you for confirming my suspicions regarding "slips".
IMHO, debating exactly what terminology we should use for women's slips is about as useful in the 21st Century as debating about the terminology to use when discussing buggy whips. When something passes into oblivion, does it really matter exactly how we refer to that item?
I'm not claiming to be an all-knowing expert on this topic, but...do women actually wear slips in 2017?
I still do, once in awhile. Depends on the fabric of the dress or skirt. (I remember when I had many slips, in several lengths, and in beige, white, and black. That does seem odd now.)
I still do, once in awhile. Depends on the fabric of the dress or skirt. (I remember when I had many slips, in several lengths, and in beige, white, and black. That does seem odd now.)
I had those colors--also varying lengths--but also had slips in pink. "Pink slips".
I don't know any who do, not even those who still wear skirts. At one time I had at least half a dozen full slips and that many half slips but that was 50 years ago.
Slips and can-cans! We wore the can-cans to hold the circular round poodle skirts out. Some girls wore more than one at a time.
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wearing of slacks by some female faculty members. Times had changed, and when the principal demanded that female faculty members wearing slacks go home in order to change their mode of dress, most of them pointed out that there was nothing in print stating that women could not wear slacks, and some of the more assertive women defied the Principal.
