1967 Advice for Girls (from Seventeen Magazine)

[hollydolly]

@hollydolly

Hols, over here, only students in Private or Catholic schools wear uniforms. I wish public schools would implement uniform wear as well. Clothing a teen-ager costs a lot these days .. and not all parents can afford the latest in fashion. It's enough that kids have tablets, cellphones, etc.

Exactly .. this is what makes it fair with regard Uniforms in the UK..all schools wear them regardless of public or private.. Incidentally a Public school here is a fee paying school.. an ordinary non fee paying school is called a Comprehensive..

Either one can have pupils go to University if they get good grades, but kids from Public schools go more often.. than those from Comprehensives..

 

[Pepper]

I was saving an original copy of Seventeen, since I was about 15! because even back then I knew I was getting scammed. The headline of the story, front page no less, was along the lines of "How to hide from him that you're SMART."

I lost it in Superstorm Sandy, along with my leather bound 100+ year old copy of Chaucer's works.

 

[Bella]

If this isn't too dumb a question- how did you hold your stockings up?

My dear , we wore pretty suspender belts...View attachment 227707

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When I was thirteen years old and we wore something like this ... called an open bottom girdle, with panties underneath, to hold up stockings. You didn't want to wear the kind with legs because then you'd have to pull it all the way down to pee and then pull it back up. This kind, with the open bottom, was better because you could just pull your panties to the side, tinkle and wipe, instead of yanking it down and up. And you didn't have to struggle with straightening out your stockings which would be down around your ankles.

I didn't see what we call a garter belt until later.

Thank God pantyhose soon followed. I hated this thing!

Bella

 

[Mizmo]

I did not wear long stockings at that age . We all wore regulation knee socks .... part of uniform until I left school which was at age 15.
My Dad became ill so I had to help bring in the bread so to speak. I started working in an office and wore lisle stockings with three garters on each leg . I had to knot them as my legs were too skinny....

We were always afraid one would snap so wore at least two. Nylon stockings were available but too expensive and in short supply. In the summer we would put tan lotion on our legs and we would even draw a line up the back with black pencil so people would think we had nylon stockings on. My best girl friend never could get a straight line on mine. She blamed it on my legs and I believed her...

I remember my mother wearing one as in the pic above but I never did. Wore the garters for years. Then a cotton suspender belt.
Couldn't afford the lacy stuff. Pantyhose were a long way off then.