WHAT WAS COOL WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?

I can remember way back when they came out with plaid clothing but at first it was worn by farmers. When I was a young girl my parents were raising 6 children I being the oldest. Money was tight for a family of that size Daddy was the only who worked in the family and mom's stayed home taking care of the children and the home and did the cooking, sewing and gardening.

My Mom was raised in an orphanage and she lacked a lot of those skills there was no one to teach her how to cook, sew, gardening but she was a very good housekeeper that was about the only an orphanage taught them. There wash no love no toys to speak of just a roof over your head you wore uniforms. You hair was all cut the same very short to protect from head lice. Life was just very uniform and when you think about this it makes you think how lucky you are or maybe the importance of adopting.

As I grew up these same ideas came with my Mom. I can remember when I was 10yrs old she went down to Montgomery Wards and took all 4 of us girls that Saturday morning to buy school clothes. On them racks was plaid dresses yes plaid dresses we each got 2 brand new dresses in plaid she told us money was short and the dresses would be exactly what she could handle because we could wear them more than once a week without laundrying them they would hide the dirt. I hated those dress we were all dressed a like. I never voiced my opinon to my mom though I cherished her and still do to this day. We have talked about those dresses since then and I told her how us girls felt in those dresses and she told us she didn't realize it at the time but she was acting out her childhood and she guessed she was dressing us in a manner that was of the same without ever realizing this. UNIFORMS. To this day I totally hate plaid and I wouldn't care if they were or ever become the coolest thing to be wearing or if it made you so cool you just had to have one.

As I got older and could earn my own money it was important being a young girl and being cool in school to be excepted by others or being popular and clothes had a lot to do with and it's still that way today.

How about the HOTPANTS, weren't they coolest thing you ever had. I had a hotpant suit that was white on top red around the middle and dark navy blue on the bottom and it zipped up the front. It hugged your figure and showed off every curve, that was hot.

How about the BELL BOTTOM PANTS the kids think they have something on us today with bell bottoms well when we were young the bigger the bell bottom the cooler you were in fact we took material pices of flowers and sewed them in tie make them bigger, and that was cool. And the cotton shirt with the buttons down the front you brought the tails around to tie to show off your belly, not your belly button though that wasn't allowed.

HIP HUGGERS woops the belly button appeared in this darling outfit and then you learned to swing those hips to when you walked.

MINI SKIRT my Dad put the breaks on this one I couldn't have a mini skirt but my mom had one and wore it out with Dad on seeral occasions little did he know that the minute we were on the bus or out of his sight the skirt we would have on we would roll it up around the waist to get the same look. This one you din't dare bend over in zI remember learning how to stoop very carefully but the boys would alwasy watch hopeing they would catch a glimps of something.

ANGORA SWEATER couldn't never figure what was so hot about this one I always itched and so did everybody else but you just had to have one and pink angora was the coolest. We also bought angora hair strand to wrap around a boys classring to make it fit that was cool too.

And today they dress sloppy or as little on as possible, everything is baggy the other day I saw a teenage girl with knee knockers on with a pink short skirt over that dirty tennis shoes untied, a sweater wrapped around her butt and some see thru cotton shirt that only covered her breast, with her belly hanging over none of this matched, her hair was pulled off the one side high on her head in a pony tail and she was very much overweight. But she had all kinds of girls with her and others hollering out her name. I must say most of them were dressed this way. And the boys with their pants down below their waist with boxer shorts hanging out the back side of their pants stepping on their pant legs all chewed up. Besieds all the fac piercing why coverup soemthing so pretty on a girl or look so hard core on a guy. I ran into one the other day and he had piercing over both eye brows, all around his mouth, in his nose on both sides, his ears and he wass good looking I walked by him and I just couldn't help myself I said Hello stud to him. He just tipped his head and smiled. I think they lack attention from somewhere and thats to bad. If they only knew what they were going to look like when they turn 30, 40, 50, 60 with all that piercing.