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Damn, I should be high-waist jeans dealer, these days. Billlllllllions of girls!!
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The Teddy Boys were a subculture that originated on the streets of London, but the style soon permeated 1950s menswear with the influence of crooners such as Frank Sinatra. The dandified look included a fitted single-breasted jacket called a drape, which was made of wool but featured a velvet or satin lapel and cuffs. Often cut from bright-colored fabrics, the jackets were typically paired with a brocade vest and a starched white shirt. The final touch was suede shoes, which often matched the ensemble's color.
Well I can tell you for certain, because I was around at the time, black jeans became a fad in the late 50's when the popularity of denim 'blues' were at their zenith. Blue jeans were seen as subversive, rebellious and outside of the mainstream, banned in popular establishments. Black jeans, I remember, became the must have, as a way of circumventing the ban. However, the late 50's was not the birth of black jeans, my Dad told me that they were available before the war, but shunned because of their 'work' appearance. I hope that this helps.GAH! And all because I only wanted to known when black denim jeans were first put on the market. (Still don't...).
Well I can tell you for certain, because I was around at the time, black jeans became a fad in the late 50's when the popularity of denim 'blues' were at their zenith. Blue jeans were seen as subversive, rebellious and outside of the mainstream, banned in popular establishments. Black jeans, I remember, became the must have, as a way of circumventing the ban. However, the late 50's was not the birth of black jeans, my Dad told me that they were available before the war, but shunned because of their 'work' appearance. I hope that this helps.
Well I can tell you for certain, because I was around at the time, black jeans became a fad in the late 50's when the popularity of denim 'blues' were at their zenith. Blue jeans were seen as subversive, rebellious and outside of the mainstream, banned in popular establishments. Black jeans, I remember, became the must have, as a way of circumventing the ban. However, the late 50's was not the birth of black jeans, my Dad told me that they were available before the war, but shunned because of their 'work' appearance. I hope that this helps.
Skirts were required for girls in my home school district until around 1976.jeans — rolled up at the cuffs — were certainly allowed in her school back then, but only for the boys.
Such a rule was de rigeur in UK schools. Although not a law as such, many places would ban women if they weren't wearing a skirt or dress. That changed almost overnight with the advent of the mini skirt.Skirts were required for girls in my home school district until around 1976.
Such a rule was de rigeur in UK schools. Although not a law as such, many places would ban women if they weren't wearing a skirt or dress. That changed almost overnight with the advent of the mini skirt.
Jeans were allowed only on gym days, and only for boys, until 1972 in my district.
I recall girls first being allowed to wear pants to school, but I can’t recall just when that occurred. I’m fairly confident it was in my post-primary school years, though.
...but in my day it was, of course, long skirts or nothing.
Being sick is often never believed. Taking time off work and claiming that you're too ill to attend is known in our country as: "Throwing a sickie." So when you are really ill, you're not believed, so you go to work and spread your bug among the workforce, then you're blamed for that. You just can't win.Getting sick. The worst part isn't just that you're feeling lousy but that everyone else treats you like you're Typhoid Mary. And then if someone else should catch the same cold you never see the end of the finger pointing because you shouldn't have gotten sick in the first place!
There's little worse than the martyrs who make a show of turning up when they;'re crazy ill. Not that I can talk: I only ever seem to catch a bad cold when I'm far too busy to have the time to be ill.
So there seems to be this new 'thing' happening here in Sydney, new as in it's become a plague over the past few months, whereby drivers, and I use the term loosely, seem to take half a $%$#@^ hour to turn the corner of any given street or into a driveway.
The traffic here is now ludicrous as the consortium of developers/banks/big business and government pour as many people as they can into the place; the population of Sydney was 4 million in 2000, and is now over 5 million. My local area had a population of 160,000 in 1991; it's now 242,000. To drive less than a kilometre from one side of Liverpool city to the other between the hours of 3pm and 6pm on a weekday can take more than 30 minutes, so it's extremely frustrating to be waiting to make a turn and give way to a driver coming in the opposite direction who dawdles around the corner. While he's doing 20 km/h on hid approach the traffic coming up behind him is doing 90 (in a 70 zone mind you) and so you're stuck waiting for all those cars to pass and then, of course, another clown plods along to turn the corner and you're left stranded again!