An Idea

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Mind you this jewelry went with the ribbed tank top (called wife-beaters now), green army jacket, black converse, jeans and long brown hair in my face (just to annoy people). Honest, I was perfectly normal for a mid-80's teenager!!!! I'm SOOOO boring now.

Later,

Helen C

dangles/fishing

Oh yah, and I think kids now-a-days look weird! Like I had room to talk!!

Later,

Helen C

Please do it!! and then launch it here... between DS, DDIL and myself we have a total of 23 piercings... we need nice things to put in them.. Sterling preferred. .. but more than that I am curious to see how such a design would look. Im having a hard time picturing it well. Diana

Boring? What an odd thing to say. Think of it more like whispering. When someone shouts, you have to kind of turn off your ears. When you whisper, they strive to listen.

Tina

Let's see, paisley dresses in day-glo, black light colors. Nehru shirts. Jeans made into bell bottoms by inserting bright patterned fabric into the lower leg seam. Lots and lots of strings of beads. And flowers in my hair. Fresh flowers. Always. And lots of buttons, peace buttons political buttons ("sterilize LBJ, no more ugly children" "the great society, bombs, bullets and bullshit" and of course, "God is alive in a sugar cube"). Still have the buttons somewhere. A perfectly normal teen-ager in the late 60's....... Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

To me it's a good thing. It means you have many facets :-), not all of them tame or expected.

Deirdre

This is my coming-of-age era, too. Thanks for the time capsule.

Deirdre :-)

Can I/we hear about your fashion foibles? (curiousity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought it back!!!!)

Later,

Helen C

Those 'insert your own gusset' bell bottoms were pretty high on my list. Along with the Indian cotton drawstring pants of "Search for Signs of Intelligent Life" fame. No Birkenstocks, though. My feet were happiest in Shakti shoes, made with a lower heel than the instep (like a footprint in the sand) and a cork insole that was molded by, and conformed to your foot after a few wearings. Very big, blunt toe box... which was wonderful for my equally blunt foot, which doesn't taper at all. Pointy toes are torture and I avoid them like the plague.

Tie dye and batik shirts in jewel colors.

Does that give you an adequate picture?

Before my time (sorry, had to put that in) Sounds very colorful and extremely comfortable. In JC I had a pair of pants that had a rip across the back so I sewed a piece of scrap denim to in, frayed it, wrote Hellion down one leg, squiggles and hearts on the other. Wandered around barefoot carrying a handmade clay coffee mug my neighbor had made (a professional potter and definately an "artiste" - blue tooth and all!), hair down and then wondered why people called me a hippie! Very comfortable.

Later,

Helen C

Any more? (at least that people will admit to!!)