[Sca-cooks] 50's vs '70s

[Susan Fox-Davis]

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>Actually, I think you may be mixing your metaphors.  The poodle skirts 
>were much earlier...in the '50's....I never had one because my mother 
>made all of my clothes and wouldn't let me follow fads ("If all of your 
>friends were to jump off of a cliff, would you follow?").  The tie-dyed 
>shirts and platform shoes came later...mostly in the 60's.  By then I 
>could determine my own fashion, so owned both!!
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>Kiri
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>Yes, that was my exact intention.  Just as tuna noodle pizza might seem "period" to future re-enactors of the mid-twentieth century, so poodle skirts and tie-dye might seem appropriate period garb to them.
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>Brighid ni Chiarain
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And therein lies the object lesson of this silly thread of discussion 
and the importance of temporal consistancy!

Selene C.