SOUTHWORDS
October 1975
Bobbie socks, saddle shoes give way to platform, wedgies, painters pants
by Sharon
Bobbie socks, saddle shoes, long skirts, and pony tails-- times sure are changing and so have the dressing styles of students at Maine South. Everything has changed: shoes, hair styles, dress clothes and "bum around" clothes.
Shoe styles have gone from saddle shoes and bobbie socks to platforms and wedgies. Now it is quite hard to find a shoe that doesn't have at least a two inch heel of some sort. Unless you are speaking of the earth shoe, which hardly has any heel at all. You can still catch an occasional glimpse of a Dr. Scholl sandal in the hall in spite of the cooler weather.
Hair styles have changed for both girls and guys. The girls' pony tail has faded in the last 10 years, and gradually shorter hair has come in. For the guys, the "wet head" died a long time ago, and some guys cut and style their hair now.
Skirts, which were once somewhat long, changed into mini skirts, which gradually grew back into a longer skirt. There seems to be more skirts being worn by upperclassmen, particularly in the past few years. Most of the skirts are from the lower knee to mid-shin, while only a few years ago miniskirts were the "in things."
For just bumming around, there are overalls, painters pants, and good ol' blue jeans. But for somewhere in-between grubbies and dress clothes there are a lot of corduroy pants....
Fads come in and fads go out, but almost everyone agrees that nothing is better than a pair of faded, "lived in" blue jeans.