You had me worried for a while. Never thought of the ice storm, although I'd seen it on TV and also on the online Findlay Courier. It just serves to remind me why I am in Texas. And running around in shorts. My mother might not approve. Maybe twenty years ago when I was visiting from California, where shorts were considered modest, everyday attire, and thongs were acceptable on the beach, I started out on a shopping trip to Findlay, when my Mother asked "Are you going to wear THAT? (Meaning shorts.) "Well, yes." And my Mother said - "OLDER WOMEN don't wear short to go shopping in Findlay." Ouch! But I changed to slacks. I loved my Mother. Any of you old enough to remember when long slacks were scandalous on a woman? I still remember when - about 1937 - I was walking "downtown" in McComb and met a daring young woman who was wearing MEN'S PANTS! It kept the town gossip mills going for days, and I was shocked, myself. About that time, or soon thereafter, I was wearing slacks, so maybe the standard was different for kids. I do remember you could gauge a woman's age by the length of her dress. My grandmother wore her skirts halfway between her knee and her ankle or lower. Mother wore hers closer to the knee, and, in the early forties, teenagers were wearing them above the knee. I think when the "New Look" came in (1945 or '46), and young people dripped their hemlines to close to what my grandmother was wearing, it sounded the death knell for age-prescribed hem lengths. Leah, a Buckeye transplanted to Texas Jack & Linda Dietz wrote: > Hi John, and Listers, > I just got my internet service back this evening and will begin my > postings tomorrow with the date of Jan 6. Hope everyone made it > through the ice storm ok. > > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:01 PM > Subject: [Allen Cty List] Re:Postings > > >> Linda, I haven't seen any recent postings from you. Have you >> discontinued them? >> Or am I no longer on the list? >> I certainly enjoyed reading them and in fact copied two or three and >> mailed them to my mother-in-law, Frances Rex. >> I cerainly hope that you and Jack are doing OK. >> Best regards, John Bielstein >> >> >> ==== OHALLEN Mailing List ==== >> Allen County, Ohio - OHGenWeb Project >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/allmain.html >> >> ============================== >> View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find >> marriage announcements and more. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >> >> > > > > ==== OHALLEN Mailing List ==== > Allen County, Ohio - OHGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/allmain.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > >