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What DID she like? Preppy clothes. Shetland sweaters, kilt skirts, Bass Weejuns, Etienne Aigner purses and shoes, Villager and Ladybug clothes.
This is what the girls wore when I started high school. I wore the boy version (all my Alan Paine sweaters had socks that matched). By the end, it was bell bottoms and "tops." Jeans weren't allowed yet in my high school, but they're what everyone was wearing the following year, in college.
1950s schools had dress codes. My mother didn't have to tell me what to wear--school would have sent me home if I wore pants instead of a skirt. She didn't like it when I bought spike heels but told me to go ahead if I thought I could wear them. I learned the hard way with those and ended up in the podiatrist's office.
Denim jackets, back in the early 80's they were for bad boys.
I loved those bad boys in denim jackets, lol. Actually back in the 80's there were some truly artistic denim jackets that the kids painted album covers on. Now that was talent.
I don’t remember my parents telling me not to wear anything, but my first job in the mid 1960s was on a food truck that went around to factories at lunchtime. One day I wore a pair of jeans to work and my boss didn’t think it was appropriate. I was only visible from the waist up on the truck anyway. Those might have been the first pair of jeans I ever got.
Pants at church - no kinds of pants, even dress pants
Jeans with holes
Anything that showed cleavage at all
Until about age 14 I couldn’t wear skirts or dresses without tights or hose, church always required tights or hose. Eventually I wore her down on going bare legged
Leggings with shirts that didn’t cover my butt
Bikinis
Shorts/skirts/dresses that were above mid-thigh
Anything form fitting around my butt (unless it was covered up)
makeup
visible bra straps
My mom was very conservative. She has loosened up a bit now, but still complains about cleavage.
Female and my mother didn't forbid me to wear anything. I graduated HS in 1984 and the styles were fairly conservative. Mostly jeans and tops. I was definitely conservative in my clothing, lol. I think the worst thing I wore was halter tops and that was during the summer and not at school.
She didn't "forbid" me but she didn't want me to wear makeup. To this day I still have no idea how to apply makeup
I was the same, except I was allowed to wear makeup in high school. I didn't wear a lot of it though, just some eye shadow and rouge.
I loved those bad boys in denim jackets, lol. Actually back in the 80's there were some truly artistic denim jackets that the kids painted album covers on. Now that was talent.
I would KILL for that Boston or Beatles denim jacket! Please, help save a life and tell me where I can buy them.
Well... Um... I bet my parents would have been dismayed if I had wanted to wear a bra or leggings. I'm a man.
I remember the rules for girls at my high school. When wearing a dress, the length had to be at least as long as when the girl kneeled the skirt had to touch the ground. Simple rule.
Well... Um... I bet my parents would have been dismayed if I had wanted to wear a bra or leggings. I'm a man.
The way things are going in this Country, it may be mandatory in a year or two, that men wear bras at least one day a week just to make everyone feel equal.
I attended high school in the 90s and had no restrictions. My parents pretty much let me do whatever for the most part. Very laid-back people. I had a lot of problems with my health and struggled a lot mentally when I was young, so I think they went ultra easy on me. They also just don't really care about controlling me though. Never as a kid and never as an adult either. Even when I had a lot of problems with drugs and alcohol, they were more like "We are here for you and hope you'll change but we know we can't stop you". Overall this was good, because I did go to them many times when I truly needed help, which probably saved my life a few times. Had they shunned me, I doubt I would have survived my hard times.
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