Do you still have your SJC blazer? Did you wear a beanie? What do you remember about the SJC dress code or fashions of the day while you were in school?
Do you still have your SJC blazer? Did you wear a beanie? What do you remember about the SJC dress code or fashions of the day while you were in school?
The list of clothing we were told to bring during the Summer of 1964 before entering Freshman year included “dafs” – dressy, attractive, flats! Today I pretty much live in dafs. And yes – I still have my blazer – intact.
(Of course it doesn’t fit.)
When I told my children that I never owned a pair of jeans until I was 22 they are convinced I went to a finishing school. I didn’t mind being “finished”. They were a wonderful four years!
I remember the requirement to wear nylon stockings under our white cotton socks. In those days nylons had a dark seam running up the back of the leg.
On many days, we would draw ( I think with a eye liner) a seam running up our legs. With this drawing in place, we could once again enjoy the comfort of our bpbby socks.
class of 1959
Shorts? Pants? AFTER my time! Between 1946 and 1950, we wore skirts (with sweaters or blazers, and stockings always) except on Wednesday nights when we dressed for dinner. Meals were served by uniformed staff at round tables (for six) covered by white tablecloths. The college kitchen baked its own bread and every freshman quickly gained weight which she tried to counteract with a rubber girdle (yes, a rubber girdle! Made by Rubbermaid?)… When we left the campus on the rare weekends we were permitted to do so, and on vacations, we wore suits, hats and gloves. We returned to campus the same way!. For the Junior Prom, the sisters inspected our gowns, requiring us to model them a week or so before the dance ( so we would have time to acquire a substitute gown if the modeled one were found wanting.) It may have been a myth that one student was instructed to wear a bureau scarf
around her shoulders to cover an unacceptable expanse of skin…. We washed and ironed personal laundry in large set tubs in basement laundry rooms in Seton and Marillac. Automatic washers were installed in Marillac in 1949. When one of those malfunctioned, the drain was found blocked by a pair of briefs. Venerable and ancient Sister Editha, in charge of the laundry room
at the time, exclaimed when she saw the briefs, “If the saints had to wear sackcloth and ashes to get into heaven, I don’t know what you girls are
going to do!”
There was a rule regarding no slacks in the dining hall. Mind you, it was a dining hall and not a cafeteria or food court. We just wore raincoats or trench coats over shorts, or rolled up pajama pants.
class1973
I remember the silly rule that we couldn’t wear pants/shorts except for cleaning our rooms on Saturday AM or playing tennis.
I loved my Blazer and wore it until it began to wear out and the cleaner’s couldn’t get the spots out! Whoever picked them out did an excellent job!
‘57
I have my blazer, but took off the patch on the pocket when I wanted to use it as just a blazer. I still have the patch and could sew it back on if need be.
I do regret selling my nurses cape, though….must have needed the $ as a new grad!
I know the blazer is too small now for me.
My blazer is somewhere around – probably does not fit anymore!
I remember slipping out the back door of the dorm in jeans…..to go “horseback riding”……….
I still have my blazer!! Perhaps we should give an award at reunion to the class that shows up with the most blazers!!/Beanies!!
I remember the miracle of how our stockings stayed together in spite of being so TOTALLY laddered that they were sometimes difficult to get on and how we would scurry to get changed into the few we had that were intact before the Mounties were allowed on campus.