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    1. Re: [FOLKS] I was always fashion concious
    2. Well, I am a bit older than you Vee, but I remember dressing for school in the winter time. Evershed School was at the end of 57th Street, just one house away from where I lived. Even so, I had to wear my long underwear over which were fitted long tan stockings. It was most difficult to fold the ankle cuff of the underwear making it smooth so that the stocking pulled over it wouldn't be wrinkled. (It was always wrinkled.) Over that were snow pants and a cotton dress, sweater, heavy wool coat, hat, mittens. and on the feet, over the my shoes, galoshes with metal buckles. After walking past the neighbors house, through their unshoveled snow filled walk and past the boys entrance on one side of the school, I arrived at the girls entrance, usually as the last bell was ringing. Then off came the galoshes, snow pants, smooth out the stockings, hat, mittens.........well you get the picture. School was heated with a huge coal burning furnace in the basement. It was not as warm as schools are now so we were glad for the underwear although, don't let is show! Fun to remember. Barbara Moll

    02/04/2004 09:07:59