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By: raincityjazz

raincityjazz — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:39:11 +0000

I used that pattern to make several coat and legging sets for my daughters back in the day, and they’re coming back in style now for the grandkids. They help a little girl look like an innocent child and not like a miniature hooker-in-training, one of the many important distinctions that seems to blow right over the heads of the low information parents.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:35:38 +0000

I was in 4th through 7th grades during WWII, and not on the best side of town.

I guess we looked like ragamuffins in comparison to some others. But, I think there was a real effort to send us to school clean and dressed decently. I do know that our dress was very decorous compared to what I see now.

In Florida, I seemed to recall that we went to school bare foot on occasion, but looking at our 6th grade class picture, we were all in shoes. Well worn Keds of course.

By: Lorenz Gude

Lorenz Gude — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 13:22:13 +0000

Ah memory lane. I started school in ’48 in a two room school school house in New Hampshire. Like JJ from Colorado commented there were no dress codes. Dungarees and tee shirts permitted and the best some families could afford. But in the winter in the little room we wore those heavy pants against the cold with the vertical zippers at the bottom so they could go over the rubber boots that covered our shoes. Getting everyone in and out of that gear took a good chunk of time at the beginning and end of the day and in between if we went outside to play in the snow. We hated those snow pants because they really slowed you down. The rule at the time was you didn’t get a ride to school unless you lived over 2 miles away. At some stage we were deemed old enough not to have wear the snow pants, and if the snow was heavy our parents found the time come and fetch us.

By: expat

expat — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:23:34 +0000

We wore uniforms. It made life easy and the poorer kids didn’t have to compete with the better off. in HS, we did take off our saddle oxfords after school, stick them in our lockers, and put on flats to go home. The uniforms marked us as good kids when we changed busses downtown, but the saddles were just too nerdy.

As a contrast, I looked in the winows of a shop at Princeton Shopping Center the other day. It was called Incredible Me, and the clothes were tacky: dresses with cheap lace skirts, silver shoes. Nothing really matched. There was even a black dress for about an 8 year old. It had silver metalic strips going up from the hem. In my day, you didn’t get a black dress till the end of HS; you might have a lace edging on a peter pan collar; and shoes in the summer were Keds. The self-esteem movement seems to have its effect on the people of Princeton, who pay good money so their daughters are incredible.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:57:30 +0000

“Dress codes at my New York City public grade school, for example, were very strict.”

Ugh. Just set a uniform and make it official. Any reason that never happened? Personally, I prefer uniforms to dress codes.

By: Caedmon

Caedmon — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 07:52:00 +0000

In Britain, short trousers for boys, summer and winter.
Then at senior school a grey lounge suit, which could follow fashion, so flared trousers, wide collars and waistcoats.
And a minor Change Narrative: In the summer term at senior school boys were permitted to wear blazers. A few years ago I mentioned to an old friend that boys at our old school now wore blazers all the year round, which I thought looked rather sloppy. He reminded me that the change had begun in our day, instituted by a rebellious troublemaker on the Sixth Form Council. That boy was me.

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 05:21:01 +0000

“What’s more, fourth-grade boys tend to be pretty small, even smaller than the girls in the same class. Girls generally get their growth spurts early in puberty–boys later, and their puberty tends to occur later as well.”

Has this pattern become much more pronounced in the last few decades or so? Maybe a Family Therapist or someone else might know. The reason I ask is because I’m seeing a good number of girls in the 10 – 14 age bracket who are often 6″ – 15″ taller than their male cohorts and appear to be 20% – 50% larger.

In the photo above, the boys and girls look about the same size (excepting Wilt of course). That comports with my memory of 4th – 8th grade, with some girls growing quickly and being a bit taller and larger than most boys for a couple years. But what I’m seeing these days is much more extreme and sometimes looks downright weird. Like a girl walking home from school with a boy classmate, towering above him by a foot and seeming to be almost 50% bigger.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 02:09:13 +0000

Kinda ironic, the use of Wilt the Stilt as a lead-in to a piece that is basically about girls’ clothes back in the day. I once heard the aptly-named Terry Gross of NPR in Philly interview Wilt, in which he claimed intercourse with more than 10,000 women, some of them “more than once”, and noted that one shouldn’t do that ‘anymore’ (AIDS, etc.). Shucks.