Letters to the Editor
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When did thongs beomce flip flops
Yikes, when did teen start wearing thongs? I just had an amusing conversation with a nephew who was embarrased because his mom kept referring to flip flops as thongs in front of his friends. "Doesn't she know that thongs are girls underware?"
I replied ' Gee I thought thongs were those rumber shoes we wear in the summer" I'm pretty liberal, but let's get a grip. Parents need to say NO! Even babies aer being dressed in the latest fashions. Uniforms are not so bad. It saves parents money, and puts students on an even playing field in regard to style and income. Students should be thinking about if they finished their homework instead of what to wear to school. Save the style for social events.Of course someone who appears pretty cool can turn out to be not so cool out of uniform.
I went to a Catholic high school in the early 60s. The girls uniform was a jumper and white blouse. The jumpers had not been redesigned since the 30s. Boys had to wear pants and a nice shirt. No blue jeans. When wheat jeans first hit the market the boys tried to wear them to school because they were not blue jeans. After about one month, we had an assembley where the Dean of Boys told us all the "wheat jeans left nothing to the imgination". Tey wer baned and the girls started using their imginations.We were allowed to wear our regulloths the first and last month of each school year, so taht quickly sorte dus out n teh social-econmic basis. When we graduatd we had a BIg party at the sand dunes on the river where the grisl burned thier uniforms in a big bon fire.. a rite of passage.I guess that is a little too tame for today's teens.