[Magdalen] this morning at the Eucharist

[Marion Thompson]

The racier girls would pull up their tunics way above the knee when off 
school property.  We had two-colour elastic belts with a clasp (gym 
belts we called them) that made blousing up and securing the tunic easy.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 11/21/2015 1:51 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> for me? uniform grey pleated skirts *at the floor* when kneeling... in 
> 5th & 6th grades the racier girls would roll up the waistbands to have 
> a shortening effect.
> L
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> From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 11:52 AM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] this morning at the Eucharist
>
>> Tunics were to be at most "3" above the knees when kneeling" at my 
>> school for girls in the Fifties.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>> On 11/21/2015 6:25 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
>>> And I am of an age where we girls were ordered to kneel in the school
>>> corridors so the principal could measure the distance between our 
>>> hems and
>>> the floor. Four inches or more and we were sent home. Stupid old perv.
>>> -M
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, November 20, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>>> In a message dated 11/20/2015 4:59:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>>> houstonklr at gmail.com <javascript:;> writes:
>>>>
>>>> I  graduated from HS in '70>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And for me it was 1955.
>>>>
>>>> Boys were allowed jeans on one day a week.  Girls, no jeans at  all.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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