On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:39:22 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:

>On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-6, Nancy Young wrote:
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>> On 2/10/2018 9:58 AM, jmcquown wrote:
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>> >> I've heard (well, seen) people say they miss the old days when
>> >> people got dressed up to go shopping, or worse, the airport.
>> >>
>My sister-in-law's mother was a buyer for one of the exclusive
>women's store here in the 60's. Three or four times a year she
>would fly to New York to buy the coming season clothes. I can
>remember riding to the airport to see her off for about 10 days.
>She, and all the other women, were dressed to the nines for their
>flights.

I regularly flew London/HK/Tokyo back then and stupid though it was,
one was dressed to the 9s in high heels, gloves and hats. Hats were
the most stupid for all the seats were far more generous than they are
now, hats were not comfortable.
>
>That's back when you could actually walk out on the tarmac and
>watch them board and watch the plane take off.
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>> I came across some gloves at my mother's house, even a couple of
>> old hats. I don't recall ever seeing her wear anything like that.
>>
>> nancy
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I remember, probably around the early 60s, causing consternation at a
cocktail party by pinning a small ribbon bow in my hair (it was long
and braided up) and not wearing a hat. OMG, no hat!!!

Funny thing is through rec. food. recipes I made contact over a recipe
with somebody who turned out to have been USN in Tokyo. After much
chat he asked me if I was the girl at the US Embassy cocktail party
who just wore a feather stuck into my up braids, rather than a
'proper' hat lol It was I, what a strange thing to make a memory.
>I don't remember my mother wearing gloves but I do remember her
>wearing a hat to church every Sunday. She finally stopped wearing
>a hat to services sometime in the 70's.