And don’t forget Miller’s Outpost!
I wore the gouchos, Gunny Sax, painter pants and A-Smiles in junior high. I just me just a couple years younger. Yes, @emeraldkity4 we bought Swabbys at Saturdays and sewed down the tags so people couldn’t steal them. That was in elementary school, though. In late elementary it was buckle backs and “Star Jeans” from Saturdays.
High School was a bit more preppy then full on punk/new wave followed by a late breaking dose of hippy chick. I do still have my custom fit 501s from HS and I still hope to fit into them some day. Don’t anybody hold their breath, though.
@emeralkity4, did you hear that they are CLOSING Skate King!!! I’m wondering if they will sell sqares of the red shag carpet. Do you remember Jay Jacobs? My mom wouldn’t shop there for us - we had to use out own money if we wanted to buy anything there because it wasn’t practical and a bit “old” for us. Ha!
I definitely rocked my wood soled Bear Trap sandals.
OMG!!! What were we thinking???
Platform shoes! I was 5’8" in 8th grade and insisted on wearing them. My mom found me a pair of red ones at the thrift store. Why I decided I needed to be 6’ tall amongst a sea of short boys is beyond me.
Also had a yellow corduroy vest and gauchos that my mom made for me in 5th grade. I loved those things! She also made me a midi dress (which I still have) and a gorgeous blue border print maxi. I wore out that dress.
I never owned a pair of jeans til I went to college and bought them myself. We were allowed to wear pants to school starting in 4th grade, but jeans were not in the budget. I used to borrow my brother’s, though.
Preppy was THE thing in college. The guys wore pink oxfords, bright green bermuda shorts and docksiders.
Late 60’s/early 70’s: we couldn’t wear pants til my senior year. Before that I wore really really short dresses and skirts- I made most of them and remember I used a lot of Betsey Johnson patterns. Once we could wear pants I think I wore mostly very faded out, very low slung levis. Overalls with tank tops were popular but regular old farmers-type overalls, not fitted. Shorts were mostly cut-off mens levis- the shorter and holier, the better. We shopped a lot at Santa Barbara thrift stores, which at that time were still inexpensive. I remember that there was a store in Isla Vista near UCSB that only sold used Levis - so crazy! The year that I graduated is the first year Disneyland allowed girls to wear pants to grad night, but it had to be a matching pantsuit.
These are the shoes that I wanted more than anything in the 8th grade. Of course they were too high and my mom wouldn’t allow it. I had the short ones with a 1" heel 
. There was a girl in my class who had lavender A.Smile overalls and those high rainbow Cherokee sandals that she would wear together. Somehow it came up at our 20 year reunion and she said that her dad bought them for her to spite her mom as they were recently divorced. So . . . I stopped being jealous 25 years after the fact.
https://www.■■■■■■■■/listing/25423739/vintage-cherokee-wedge-sandals-size-8
Saturday’s! I remember that store, but was it in Crossroads?
I did go to Jay Jacobs, but I was spending my own money.
My sister went to Skate King, but I went to Lake Hills roller rink.
Tower of Power. <B
( they had live shows on the weekends, where we wore our white pants under the black lights.)
Another very early '70’s HS grad. No pants allowed until I was a senior. But finances were so tight I couldn’t afford to buy them so wore those skirts that were as short as allowed- my HS graduation dress was so long at the time but now I see how high above my knees it was! btw- pants I did own/were available only came to the tops of my ankles. I remember when culottes were finally allowed- and they were more modest than regular skirts! I don’t remember brand names being as big as they are now. Never was into fashion- finding shoes that fit was a chore, even if affordable fancy brands were (and are) unlikely to fit well (comfort over fashion always). Even today so many of you mention brands I never heard of. My babysitting money went towards college. I do remember needing to watch my daily apparel so I did not wear the same skirt two days in a row, ie planning the blouses that worked. I think one year I had two or three skirts- including a wool one I wore in May. My mom had to use a Laundromat so laundry was only once a week as well.
I do not miss garter belts. Nor skirts/dresses as everyday wear. Nor the shoes of that era. Nor trying to have curly hair- slept on rollers. Nor trying to find big around-small cup size bras because of bosom size, not weight. It was so unfair that we had to visit relatives wearing dress up clothes (ie skirts/knee socks) while kid brother had comfortable pants.
My biggest reason to stop wearing dresses was only being able to find maxi dresses- what a horrible length. And now my height, age and weight do not want me to wear above the knee ones (WHY can’t they make larger sizes longer???).
Early 70s–Jr. High–high-waisted, wide legged pants, peasant shirts, sometimes granny dresses.
Mid 70s–HS–Levis jeans or thin-waled straight-legged corduroy pants, Qiana shirts or T-shirts over button-down blouses, Wallabies.
No jeans allowed when I was in high school. It wasn’t until my senior year that girls were allowed to wear pants at all, and jeans still weren’t allowed. Skirts and tops, either blouses or sweaters, were the order of the day for girls at that time.
Saturdays was down across from Nordstrom I thought - kind of where Pasta and Co. is now. There was a place down near Skate King and World of Toys that sold Swabbys as well. Nordstrom Place Two was at Crossroads while it lasted.
Girls had to wear skirts/dresses until midway through my freshman year (1971) when a court case threw out our dress code. I remember the first day after that- i think the entire school wore jeans!
Mostly though, the girls at my HS school were very into fashion, with seventeen magazine being the guide. it was very cool to wear clothes from certain stores that stocked the latest fashions. i have always liked clothes so I spent every cent I earned at my part time job on clothes. Brand names were not as important as 'the look".
Some things i remember - really short skirts, platform shoes, prom dresses from Gunne Sax, flares and wide leg pants. Handbags with long fringe.
Wallabies ! I came very close to buying a pair this winter …those were some comfy shoes. I remember saving up for them with my babysitting money and they cost $45. Now they are $120.
An ugly uniform: regulation skirt, plain white blouse, and knee socks. Topped, to be a bit rebellious, with a blue paisley bandanna. This also had the advantage of covering greasy hair, which there was no point in washing very often, since it was a girls’ school.
I just did an image search on my old school. The uniform is the same, except that now … get this … they’re not tucking their white blouses into their skirts. Not tucked in?!? Whoa. That’s practically as wild as a blue bandanna.
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose …
No jeans allowed, but I got to wear my baby blue Levi cords! We also wore painter pants and on game day we wore bib overalls. I think every girl’s grad pix showed a turtleneck with a delicate necklace hanging over the “turtle”. Thank goodness those body suits with the snaps in the crotch had gone out of style. I know I wore clogs and I think the brand was Bastad-sp? If we wore a dress that a teacher suspected was too short, we had to kneel down and if the hem did’t touch the floor we had to call our Moms to bring something different.
Troentorp Clogs (formerly known as Båstad Clogs)
Seventies. Polyester shirts, earth shoes and Star jeans, if you could afford them. If you had muscles from the Conditioning Room, you wore a light, tight tee or similar.
My late sixties high school “uniform” for girls who wanted to fade into the woodwork-
Villager skirts and sweaters with a flowered blouse with peter pan collar. Color coordinated. Knee socks and weejuns. Circle pins. Girls who could not afford the “uniform”, or whose parents considered brand name clothing a poor value, made do with other less expensive brands or with (gasp) homemade clothing. Many girls scrimped and saved and babysat or worked in stores in order to afford Villager clothing.
Pants were not permitted, and skirts were supposed to land at the middle of the knee.No patent leather shoes. I sometimes wore saddle shoes.
Outside of school, girls were wearing mini skirts, maxi skirts, bell-bottomed jeans, and hot pants.
Girls with curly hair ironed their hair or slept on soup cans. African American girls, without exception, straightened their hair. Everyone wore make-up, every day.