on another site , i was reminded of things from

specifically sayings and cliché phrases , but that got me to thinking of things from the past ...........

so as a young kid my grandfather showed me his spats - i was interested , my grandmother showed me her button top shoes , seems they kept things around much as we do these days , she showed me how the button hook worked and he explained that the spats kinda went with the zoot suites even tho they were more deadily accepted , and that reminded me of things that were a trend and not readily accepted ............

so i recall in my freshman year of high school in our school [flyover state] that the guys had decided to continue wearing their penny loafers but without sox .........i never quite understood the problem with that trend , but i was wearing mine soxless , oh and i kept dimes in mine so i always had change for the payphone , 

but , the admin decided that was forbidden , we were given an ultimatum to wear sox or risk expulsion , the student body decided that was not acceptable and everyone showed up that friday without sox , no one got expelled and it never came up again , one fellow in my speech class actually gave a speech on it and personal rights , this was fall of my freshman year so it was my initiation to the new school , 

little did i know that was a very minor beginning to those experiences of the mid 60s , a trivial thing today , but important in those times of racial adjustments , VN war protests and so many other new things , 

A little background on "Beetle Boots".

They were originally sold as "Beatle Boots" because the group "The Beatles" wore them & made them popular. Then they sued for copyright because of the deliberate misspelling of "Beatle"!

Yep Winlke-Pickers! Named after the marine snail delicacy where you had to "Winkle them out of the she!!" with a pointy object called a "Winkle Pin"!

I still have deformed toes a bit like Chinese foot binding, caused because I wore them with 2" "Cuban Heels"

I still have a pair of beatle boots, luv em and wear them.

My last pair of original `70`s levi bell bottoms turned to dust a couple yrs ago,

Never wore paisley shirts always t`s or denim wrangler shirts. and still do.

I also had the square toed cow boy boots with stirrup straps. Re heeled and soled probably 3-4 times. All I wore through high school, my all weather shyte kickers.

At least he wore shoes.

Madras shirts and Nehru jackets were de rigeur back then!