the obituaries become A Trip Down Memory Lane

Published on by Grace

I read the obituaries every day just to see how I’m stacking up on the ‘age at death’  statistical charts. Sometimes I read about people who led interesting lives and should have been well known, and sometimes I read about ordinary people who had led lovely lives, and I think, it would have been nice to have met them.

When it comes to famous people dying, those of my generation, or just a bit older, the memories come flooding back. I get to relive good times. I get to ‘remember when’. I get to laugh at my own antics that may have been influenced by the career of the famous person.  Sometimes those laughs may be rueful because – ‘What the hell was I thinking?’  is often my reaction in retrospect.

Mary Quant, who died this week at age 93, reminded me of the fabulous clothes we wore thanks to her.

Mini-skirts! I wore the miniest of the minis.  The trick to minis, back in those days was to have everything match – your tights, your undies, would be the same color as your skirt or bottom half of your dress. Sometimes you even matched your shoes so there was just one long block of color from your waist to your toes.

And then there were hot pants – showed a lot of leg but actually were a bit more demure than minis because they were pants and there was no danger of private bits going on show.

I wish I had more photos of me when I was young and good looking but here is one that was taken with the camera we used to  make ID badges – That’s me rockin’ my hot pants – Hot Damn!

14 thoughts on “the obituaries become A Trip Down Memory Lane”

  1. We’re you about 20 or 21 here? Looks like it. Just a baby. You were definitely my type, as I’ve told you before, whoo. Although these days I cannot really comment on women’s good looks if they’re younger than 30 because at 43 I am too old myself now to see em as anything but a kid. I think you once posted a picture of yourself and George In your 40’s and you were still rocking it.

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      1. 😅💗. It was almost better even, because you’d gained some weight, were my age in the photo, and you had this kind of tough girl butch thing going. I think you posted it on Valentines Day. Didn’t look like a wedding photo to me, but what do I know. It was a close up of the two of you. He looked great as well. Just a really good photo of you two in general.

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  2. Ah yes, the mini skirt. I didn’t wear them much because I considered myself fat back in the day. I wasn’t of course but I had friends who were way thinner than I was.

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    1. Chubby as I was up until my early 20’s I had great legs – my father said I was a barrel on toothpicks and once when I was around 19-20 a guy at work asked “how do such skinny ankles hold up such a big girl?” Nice, huh? Didn’t stop me, LOL

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    1. No story, just regular ole corporate security. I worked in the Personnel Department, now called, HR, and employees in the manufacturing area had to have ID badges with different colored backgrounds assigned to indicate which parts of the factory they were allowed access to. It was a polaroid type camera with 4 lenses – 2 pictures were needed – one for the badge, one for the record. When we were bored we played with the camera, sometimes taking 4 pictures, sometimes taking two – my boss actually took the camera home one weekend to take pictures of his kids…

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  5. Nice picture! The mini-skirt, the long hair–obviously you were deserving of a second glance! (Three is just creepy.)
    I worked in the employment office at the phone company here, and we took the i.d. photos with this giant, cumbersome contraption. Blue background for employees, purple for management–not sure why, except maybe without the purple background as a clue, the managers didn’t look smart enough . . .
    I remember after the photo was taken we asked each person if the flash looked white or pink. If they said pink, we did it over, because that meant they blinked.
    The fashion crazes of the Sixties left me baffled, mostly. I sure was not in the mainstream.

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    1. Why thank you! Actually that was a hots pants outfit a very particular style which I won’t bother to describe LOL Our company id set-up was a 4-lens polaroid camera on a tripod. Office staff didn’t have id’s just the manufacturing side of the business because we had gems and gold on the premises. Office staff didn’t go into the factory area on a regular basis. I can’t say much about men’s fashions back in the 60’s and 70’s – don’t even remember if it was distinctive. I do remember sometime in my youth long hair on men and moustaches were popular – I detest both…

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