Can the adults please smoke? — Page 61

#1501

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 5:19pm

hey beacon!

white lipstick - absolutely.

During the Twiggy era. Dark eyes and pale lips.

During the 70s the big thing was Lipgloss - preferably scented and flavored! (yuck!)

And, for the maximum disco effect - eyeshadow teamed up with white eyeliner...

(again, were we blind?? did we have no mirrors?? how did we think that looked good??)

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#1502

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 5:53pm

With that chemistry set...

How many times did YOU draw your own blood to look at it under a microscope?

I was walking around with a few puncture wounds.

#1503

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 5:56pm

Which reminds me...

In college cousin, her husband and I decided to take advantage of selling our white blood cells for cash as the local Blood Bank.

They draq out two pints of whole blood (like milk) then separate the white from the red cells (through centrifigul force) and feed the red cells back into your system.

All for, what the hell was it...$15.00?

#1504

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 6:36pm

Lot to catch up on here...Tube socks with the color bands around the top.
I had a Blue and a tan lesuire suit. Everyone was wearing them. My Mom said I had to have them.
Senior prom I wore a grey tuxedo with a pink ruffle shirt to match my girlfriend's gown. She wore a dark pink chiffon fully pleated gown with spaghetti straps.

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#1505

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 6:44pm

yep...I examined my own blood, hair...found it fascinating...Dad encouraged it. Mom thought it was disgusting in her kitchen.

I had friends in college who 'sold' blood, also.
The closest I came to that was donating blood for days off at my first company. (I would have donated the blood anyway, but the extra vacation was a nice perk!)

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#1506

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 6:47pm

Tube socks - absolutely! In many different color combinations.

Also, later in the 70s painters pants became a big fashion trend. Paired with rugby shirts...

And Dean's sweaters. With a patterend yoke around the neck - and a 3 button closure. I had them in just about every color of the rainbow - and pretty much lived in them in college...paired with just the right color turtleneck!

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#1507

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 6:48pm

oh, boobs - that sounds alot like my prom gown - except mine was emerald green...

and I had forgotten to tell my date that I had little straps, so not to get me a corsage that had to be pinned...so we had to get a little creative with it so I could wear it on my wrist.

Then, when I got home instead of putting it back in the plastic case to put in the refrigerator to try to preserve it, I stuck it in the freezer...so it was dead as could be the next day!

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Updated On: 8/1/04 at 06:48 PM

#1508

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 6:57pm

Painter pants and chinos....I had in all colors. Wore those shoes..what were they called? Walabes???

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#1509

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:00pm

I wore white painter pants, with red canvas loafers that had yellow plastic heels. The memories of that outfit still gives my sister nightmares. Did I mention I wore it with a canary yellow double-breasted shirt and a red woven metallic tie?

#1510

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:01pm

Sounds like an outfit I would've loved DGrant.

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#1511

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:03pm

yes - wallabees - I wore them so ofter, I wore them out!

DG - that's some image!!!

I also enjoyed my 'angel sleeve' blouses - back in the early 70s. They were like bell bottoms for sleeves...

and peasant blouses...

and my blue-jean purse that I sewed from old blue jeans I cut up.

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#1512

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:04pm

Frye boots.

huge -

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#1513

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:07pm

and for the girls -

Lanz nightgowns.

I wore it backwards - so the buttons were in the front. LIVED in them in college...

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#1514

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:07pm

NYadgal...did you wear one of those jean skirts that you made out of an actual pair of jeans????

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#1515

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:08pm

Tube socks - pulled all the way up. It's funny to see footage of tennis players in the 70's with those socks and their VERY tight short-shorts. Maybe that's why I liked tennis.

#1516

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:11pm

Yes! Bboobs - I made and wore those jean skirts. I was very handy with a sewing machine!

Thanks to Home Ec class!! (Do they still have those classes?)

And I used to crochet hats - with floppy rims, or just little caps...

Anyone remember people wearing crocheted beer can hats? I never had one, but remember wondering how in the world they were made.

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Updated On: 8/1/04 at 07:11 PM

#1517

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:12pm

DGrant - very tight shorts - like those track shorts that we all started wearing. They bordered on indecent!

I remember when you HAD to wear white to play tennis. And I could only wear tennis dresses - with those little panties underneath...

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#1518

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Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:16pm

I remember us having a crochetted doll that went around our toilet paper.

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#1519

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:19pm

My grandmother was into those little things.

I guess toilet paper was too unseemly to just have out!

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#1520

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:20pm

Here's a fairly significant memory that I don't think anyone has brought up...

The Pill.

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#1521

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:21pm

or, for that matter,

Roe v. Wade

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#1522

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:21pm

sorry..never had to use one...LOL !!!

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#1523

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:22pm

lol...was glad I had the option. (Pill)

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Updated On: 8/3/04 at 07:22 PM

#1524

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:25pm

how about dolls we called "Wishniks"? I had one with a graduation cap and gown. I would take his cap off and pull his hair to a point.

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1525

re: can the adults please smoke?

Posted: 8/1/04 at 7:25pm

changing topics...

tie dye

and hot pants (best if they were in hot colors!)

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