Bob’s back! I’m so glad he’s finally home! My project for English is moving along nicely. There’s still a lot to do, though, and just Sunday to do it in. I bought a pair of stockings today, without even looking at the size! (Heh, heh - silly me!) I got a size 6, petite. (I wear an 11, large). I also got a pair of white knee socks, 4 garters, and some notebook paper. I’ve been practicing my piano pieces and they don’t sound too bad. They will, though, when I have to play for Mr. N next Thursday.
January 2, 2023
I wish I knew how many Globe Theater models were built every year by American high school students. The English teachers must have hated the day when they were all turned in, almost as much as we hated making them. Today’s students have hundreds of plans and kits available on the internet, but all I had was the town library (remember those books I checked out?) and the family’s set of World Book Encyclopedia.
Some of you may be wondering, “Garters? Just garters?”. Let me explain. The school dress code required girls to wear skirts. For leg coverings, we had three options: tights, stockings, or socks (usually knee socks; bobby socks were out of style). By stockings, I mean pairs of nylons, not pantyhose. While those existed (they were invented in 1959), they were very expensive and rather impractical, since a run in one leg meant tossing the entire pair out. So we wore nylons, supported by garters attached to a girdle, panty girdle or garter belt. (If you need these explained, let me know in the comments.) Sometimes garters broke or came off and even got lost (depending on where you were then they came off. So you would buy replacement garters, as I did. As much as women today hate pantyhose, we hated nylons and their gartered companions more. Which is why, when skirts got shorter and pantyhose got cheaper, we were delighted to buy them. Tall girls like myself (5’9”) were particularly happy not to be exposing our garters and the tops of our stockings every time we sat down.