"The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire."

"We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth."

 - Dave Barry

I graduated from high school in 1966 (insert pic of young reader, mouth agape, look of glazed incredulity on face), two years after the Beatles came on the Ed Sullivan show.  (Just to put things into historical perspective.)

One of my favourite outfits was a navy blue preppy-style suit with miniskirt, a mustard shell, mustard honey-comb textured sheer tights, and black suede "go-go" boots.  My hair was bleached blond, and my eye makeup was Twiggy, complete with painted-on lower eyelashes and Erase in lieu of lipstick.

Lips were supposed to be invisible so as not to distract from Eyes.  It probably took most of us at least an hour to create our Eyes.  Peggy Moffit (a leading model of the times before models were called "Super.") was said to have fainted once while applying Eye make-up, her concentration on the task being so intense.  I, myself, usually became a little light-headed at these moments.

My lofty goal was to look like Jean Shrimpton,  or Jane Asher at the least, which clues you in to the fact that I love role play.

I didn't leave the decoration of my bedroom out of the loop, either, speaking of imagination.  Every week when I got my allowance, I bought another two rolls of heavy duty Reynolds Wrap and wallpapered my walls.  I think it took two months to complete the job.   I put different coloured light bulbs in my pole lamp (remember those?), but Mum insisted that I remove the red one because my bedroom window faced the street, and she was afraid the passers-by would think I was open for business of the hooker type.

I don't keep up much with what teens these days are wearing, and when I checked them out yesterday, I came away clueless, as it was snowing, and almost everyone was bundled up except this one tall kid who was wearing two short-sleeved tee shirts.

Are kids today interested in what the latest style is?  Do they try to dress like the latest pop musicians/pop musicians' girl-friends?  Anorexia wasn't popular when I was a kid like it is now, so I have to think something is going on.

Ciao for now.