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To: Rambi who wrote (12078)	2/15/2006 10:54:48 AM
From: Suma	Respond to of 541759

Rambi At Penn State... 1948 through until 52.. no woman was allowed to wear pants. .. ONLY SKIRTS on campus. No one smoked outdoors. To do so was to be considered....a tramp. No, did not have to walk in pairs... I like John's description of women in white gloves reading Sartre...etc... One of the best friends I ever in college was the one made after saw me reading BYRON..This was after she had marched out to the pitchers mound in phys. ed class and lambasted me for not allowing the batters to hit the ball..(:) It's the incongruity of our personalities that I think make people interesting. Such as...people saying." I never thought she would do that.... she is so conservative..". A lot of breaking out of that cocoon prevalent in the sixties which I think gave women character..So you marched in 1969 against the war.. Interesting.. My mother never got over her guilt of having given up he Catholic Church to become Lutheran... Always haunted her.. so I know about which you speak. .

To: Rambi who wrote (12078)	2/15/2006 10:57:39 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541759

It was an amazing time to come of age. It was, indeed, an amazing time. The first protest I ever engaged was the one that forbid slacks for women on campus. My trainer protest. I never encountered a gloves and hats issue until I married an Air Force officer. Needless to say, I was not an asset to my husband's career. It's a shame that things progressed to the point where we now have to have signs requiring shirts and shoes in restaurants, but on balance that aspect of life is dramatically better now that linen is incomprehensible. <g>

To: Rambi who wrote (12078)	2/15/2006 12:10:54 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 541759

When I was in law school, it was thought, and said, that pants suits were not formal enough to wear to court, and that wearing them to court risked public humiliation by old style judges. Accordingly, I didn't even try one until many years later -- just a couple of years ago. Come to find out, it actually looks more dignified, at least on me. Similarly, I expect that hats and gloves these days would have the opposite effect of making one look dignified, except at afternoon tea. Or maybe it's just a matter of timing. I got my younger son, wearing burmuda shorts, Birkenstocks and an Hawaiian shirt, into one of the nicer restaurants in town -- but he was with me. And, we were there right when they opened (5:00 p.m.), so were the first customers. I wouldn't have tried it at 8:00.