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 , 

i remember the madres plaid shirts of the early mid 60s being a fad too, 

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!

I was an army skinhead when I met Mrs. Strangely Brown but after leaving the services it became a bit longer circa 1974.

To remind my colonial cousins this is what a feral skinhead of the period looked like. 

I might have been High, but  my heels were strictly Cuban!

Hand rolled and moistened.

Very '70's Jason King "Gravy Boobie"!

Very appropriate! 

Jason King, or rather Peter Wyngarde to give him his real name was a keen shotgunner who enjoyed pheasant shooting in Essex in his later life. 

I believe he was also a keen pistol shot before the UK government did the dirty on us.