quiltin-nannie

No jeans (or even dress pants) when I went to school! (I'm older than dirt) I think I was almost 30 before I had my first pair of jeans. Now it seems that's all I wear! Gotta love retirement! I'm wondering how old you have to be before you start looking stupid in jeans? I quit wearing shorts (long ones too, to the knees) a few years ago. I moved to capri pants.

Stitchit123

There was 5 of us girl's in school who decided to change the dress code. We wore our Levi's. The school called our parents to bring us appropriate clothing. They did on the 1st day but for the next 5 school days we sat in the office. My Mom finally told them that she felt jeans were more appropriate than mini skirts and if they did not let us attend classes she was going to the news station. We won but we were only allowed to wear ''dress jeans'' which were jeans with out the double seam on the outside of the legs. They did not exist back then so we kept wearing our undressy jeans.That was in 1969-7th grade. Us 5 were labeled 'The Rabble Rouser's' by the girls counselor in the year book. Years later I ran into her and she told me she was proud of us for standing our ground and getting rid of the mini skirts.

ManiacQuilter2

NO, I don't remember that and I have worn jeans for most of my life. I LOVE the ones that stretch now a days.

Kris P

Funny this post should appear now. My husband was just teasing me yesterday because I was wearing a new pair of distressed jean shorts. I told him that sometimes when you find a pair that fits well, you have to take what you can get. I generally wouldn't buy distressed, or want to buy them for my girls (ages 13 and 11) but I have trouble finding a good fit. I'll just be selective about where I wear them.

bearisgray

I was thinking more about my husband's jeans than mine!

We were allowed to wear snow pants under our dresses when it was really cold. But then we had to take them off during the day.

I graduated from high school in 1959 and live in southern Minnesota. We had snow up to our armpits some years!

My Mom was an instigator for getting jeans/pants/slacks allowed for girls!

i don't remember having BLUE jeans for me - I did have a pair of charcoal gray pin-strip "jeans" - my Mom hated them on me! I do vaguely remember a pair of red plaid flannel pants I wore for snow days! UGH!

Bubbie

I'm the only one of my friends and family who sews. So my BFF has a teen aged girl (I'm so happy I'm out of that stage), she's got such a case of the "I wants" it's killing her and driving her mom NUTS.
So I have a new jean jacket, cut the sleeves out and then beat the daylights out of it (she only want used items, because she's saving the planet). Her mom got her some "NEW" jeans, and she had a fit. Told mom to bring them to me (I have sandpaper and I know how to use it), the jeans lived at my house for a week. Then mom got them back and gave them to her daughter (we spent the afternoon laughing about how happy her daughter was and how her daughter was telling her friend how her mom "GETS IT"), is happy, mom is happy and I'm happy to be able to help them both.
For me I just want my jean soft and pre-washed.

bearisgray

Try going to yard sales or second hand stores - Good Will, Savers, Salvation Army - etc.

maviskw

Well! ! ! I guess I went to a progressive high school. In the spring of 1951 we were allowed to wear jeans to school on Friday. It was Friday Jeans Day. Before that it was only dresses for school. If we wore snow pants, which we needed to do in central Wisconsin, we tucked the dress into the snow pants. I had to walk almost 2 miles to high school. Couldn't ride the bus because you had to live at least 2 miles from school to get a bus ride. But we got rides from others many times. When I was a freshman, my sister was a senior and we had a Model T Ford. She could drive that to school. I have a permanent frown mark on my brow from squinting into the sun walking home every night looking into the sun. I've had that wrinkled brow since I was 13.

katesnanna

When DH and I were first married his jeans were stiff and indigo in colour. We use to boil them in the gas copper a couple of times then he considered them fit to wear.This was in the late 60's

tessagin

We could wear pants to school under our skirts but had to take them off when we got to school. We were given a few minutes to dismiss early to put our pants back on. It was mighty cold in Indiana in the winter time. In high school we could wear heavy leggings under our skirts but no pants. I'm really dating myself, I was a "68" grad.