For me the Wonder Years start around the 6th grade and go on to High School. Basically the preteen years to full fledged teenhood. These are the years where everything is out of control. You have to live by school rules and your parents rules and you aren't sure why anymore. Yet you can see a future where anything is possible just out of your reach. I started thinking of things from that era in my life and of course it caused me to jump from one thing to another in a series of "oh remember" moments that made me smile at my younger self.
FASHION-
Saddle shoes- when everything old became new again. They made a comeback back in the day!
Fishnet stockings and windowpane stockings-Thank God I had skinny legs back then!
Gogo boots-What to wear while watching Shindig,Hullabaloo and of course American Bandstand! You can't do The Pony without them
Construction Worker boots-Not sure how we got from there to here but we did!
CPO jackets-might have been a NYC thing
Bell Bottoms- Once upon a time they were new! I got my first pair in Greenish Village at a store owned by Davy Jones of the Monkeee's fame. After that I got them at Joe's Army Navy where we took them home and tapered them!
Hip Huggers- low cut jeans without the ass crack showing!
Dr Scholl's Exercise Sandals- doesn't everyone want curvy calves.
Earth Shoes- Cute and chunky. They were Birkenstocks before there was Birkenstocks!
BEAUTY
Yardley- I loved those little circles of eyeshadow. Remember when you could wear blue eyeshadow and get away with it!
Clairol's Herbal Essence Shampoo- no not the one sitting on the shelves today with the S at the end (Herbal EssenceS) That's a remake. I'm talking about the little dark green bottle( rather the shampoo was dark green) that smelled like a forest and flowers. You could actually smell it on your hair after you washed it. Move over Breck girl! Perfect for your long straight hair parted down the middle!
Love's Baby Soft- smells like teen (girl) spirit! After that we moved up in the world to Charlie! Guys were wearing English Leather and probably too much of it!
MISCELLANEOUS
Which did you like better 16 or Tiger Beat for the best pictures of David Cassidy?
Sealing Wax-Once upon a time we had to write letters and so you needed pretty stationary and a seal to keep out the nosey buddies!
Gidget- She grew up to become Nora Walker but she will always be Gidget tp me! "Not short and not a midget..a Gidget!" I wanted to be her! I still do!
I was so young when the Kennedy assassination occurred. I remember being upset that TV shows were cancelled. It was all news all the time. Now we get news instantly. There's hardly any time to separate fact from fiction and everyone has an opinion before the dust even settles.I think people are probably more informed, I'm just not sure they are better informed.
We were lucky in that we could be in awe of things. Any space flight was a cause to stop what you were doing to watch the countdown and take off. People clapped as if they had just watched a great drama. Well actually they had!
No this isn't a definitive list. I never do anything definitively! It's just the ramblings of my mind when it's in a nostalgic mood. It all started when I had an urge for a candy lipstick! Penny candy at it's finest! Now that I think of it this could all be the result of low blood sugar!
Clearly I'm older because I remember every second of the moment we learned President Kennedy had been shot.
ReplyDeleteI used to love Yardley's Oatmeal soap and the scrub brush you just had to have. And the white eyeliner under the black eyeliner. I saw a girl wearing white lipstick yesterday and I just had to laugh. I could hear my mother saying, "You look like a ghoul." And this one did look like the living dead.
You may be older but not by much! Back then a year or two was huge.
ReplyDeleteI forgot about the white eyeliner! I loved being "mod"!