I am so glad I came across this video! My mom was also a Modesto teen in the 1950's - I believe she graduated from Downey High in '56. She's been gone for a number of years now, but this really took me back to the days when we would talk and she would tell me all about her teen years. Thanks for the vid!
The prevalence of skirts was backlash against women in pants from the war factory work in WW2. However, the genie was out of the bottle. Women would not give up trousers and gradually society dropped resistance to women in pants. Recently at the Dallas Museum of Art it seemed that maybe 3% of females were in skirts/dresses. Social forces cause clothing behavior---not sex chromosomes. Greek soldiers wear pleated skirts still today. Skirts and trousers are 100% sex neutral.
Thanks for the comment Brownies4you, and it is comical that in the 1950's our hemlines were measured and couldn't be shorter than the rule of school law.
@cpdesist Did you attend a public school that enforced a certain length of skirt? That's bizarre. I have friends who went to public school in the 1950s and they had no such dress code. They said that sounds more of a Catholic school thing. The Catholic school uniform was to always cover the knees...but no longer. That Catholic style of uniform lasted from the 1930s and into the 1960s...that old-fashioned "just past the knee" hemline.
Thank you for uploading this fun and nostalgic video
I noticed in the video the letterman sweaters had "C"s on them, I'm guessing Ceres?
midtowngirl916 1 week ago
I am so glad I came across this video! My mom was also a Modesto teen in the 1950's - I believe she graduated from Downey High in '56. She's been gone for a number of years now, but this really took me back to the days when we would talk and she would tell me all about her teen years. Thanks for the vid!
midtowngirl916 1 week ago
The prevalence of skirts was backlash against women in pants from the war factory work in WW2. However, the genie was out of the bottle. Women would not give up trousers and gradually society dropped resistance to women in pants. Recently at the Dallas Museum of Art it seemed that maybe 3% of females were in skirts/dresses. Social forces cause clothing behavior---not sex chromosomes. Greek soldiers wear pleated skirts still today. Skirts and trousers are 100% sex neutral.
skirts365 2 months ago
whats the song?
cheergirl744 5 months ago
@cheergirl744
Blue moon is the song.
cpdesist 5 months ago
It's always comical (in a sweet way) to see teen girls wearing longer hemlines.
brownies4you 6 months ago
@brownies4you
Thanks for the comment Brownies4you, and it is comical that in the 1950's our hemlines were measured and couldn't be shorter than the rule of school law.
cpdesist 6 months ago
@cpdesist Did you attend a public school that enforced a certain length of skirt? That's bizarre. I have friends who went to public school in the 1950s and they had no such dress code. They said that sounds more of a Catholic school thing. The Catholic school uniform was to always cover the knees...but no longer. That Catholic style of uniform lasted from the 1930s and into the 1960s...that old-fashioned "just past the knee" hemline.
Thank you for uploading this fun and nostalgic video
brownies4you 6 months ago
<3
LiveWithMichelle 11 months ago
I love the fashion of the 50s!
Elodee123 1 year ago
Great job CP! Them were the good old days.......bring back fond memories!
-betwah
betwah1 1 year ago