[Magdalen] this morning at the Eucharist

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 11/20/15 10:54 AM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> Sibyl:   I was told not to wear blue and green together
>
>
> (assuming this was during your growing up years?)  Perhaps that is why
> in the 70s that color combo became SO IN YOUR FACE in clothes and home
> dec stuff... My mom was addicted!  My sister and I still talk about
> mom's addiction to that color scheme... I mostly escaped it having left
> home in '70 for college, but it lingered for decades...

I was born in l944.  I don't think it was a 50s thing, because it was 
the older generation that I got it from (and the scene with my aunt was 
in the 70s). Even when I was in high school, I noticed that people my 
age weren't paying attention to it.  What they did pay attention to was 
not wearing pink and green together, especially on Thursday.  If you 
happened to do it accidentally in the morning, you got ragged about it 
all day.  In the sixties, for my generation and younger, color taboos 
went out the window in a day-glo sparkle: even high fashion was strongly 
influenced by hippies and their color sense.

Another thing was not wearing "loud", either colors or combos.  Unless 
you were a stage performer.


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Sibyl Smirl
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