Middle Aged Memories
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That one was BMT. First time seeing it. LOL.
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NativeMaine - thanks for posting. Yes Elimar, I'm sure you're just too young. Although it may have been a regional thing.
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Not sure it was regional. I grew up mostly in the SW - El Paso, Albuquerque but did some time in Hawaii too and I certainly remember it and think we used it. Part of the Ipana song is in "Grease" at the sleepover. Wikipedia the source of all knowledge says Ipana reached it's peak in the 1950s but faded fast in the 1960s. Bucky Beaver was a Disney creation.
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"Eenie, meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak..."
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Had to Google that one but I shall not spill the beans. And that would certainly have been from my era.
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I had to look it up, too, but remembered it after I found it!
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I too had to check with Dr. Google. Good one Eli.
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I'm so behind! I'm still walking around singing "Casper, the friendly ghost, the friendliest ghost you know! Though grown ups might look in anger and fright the children all love him so! -La, la, la forget words here - he's really glad to meetcha and he's kind to evry living creature." Loved that little dude. ✌️❤️ Linda
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Casper the friendly ghost
The friendliest ghost you know
Though grown ups might look in anger and fright
The children all love him soCasper the friendly ghost
He couldn't be bad or mean
He'll romp and play, sing and dance all day
The friendliest ghost you've seenHe always say, "Hello"
And he's really glad to meet cha
Wherever he may go
You know he's kind to ev'ry living creatureGrown ups don't understand
Why children, all love him the most
But kids all know he loves them so
Casper the friendly ghostCasper, and he's friendly
And he's friendlyHe always say, "Hello"
He's really glad to meet cha
Wherever he may go
He's kind to ev'ry living creatureGrown ups don't understand
Why children, all love him the most
But kids all know he loves them so
Casper the friendly ghost
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Since no one jumped in with it..."eenie, beenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak..." was, of course Rocky & Bullwinkle.
That saying always came before they took a break for a commercial. I always thought it was a great line as a prelude to a fart. Knowing those Rocky & Bullwinkle writers, they might have been implying something about all those show interruptions. They were clever like that.
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My dear sweet mother loved Dudley Do-Right.
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I LOVED Dudley Do-Right!
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In my youth, any product with a hippie-girl pitchwoman would get my attention. How I remember Cybill Shepard in that field of corn for Cornsilk makeup. Must have been right before she landed the more lucrative Cover Girl contract.
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I remember Cornsilk, never realized realized that was Cybill Shepard.
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We lost a BCO sister a few days ago, SlowDeepBreaths, one who posted here and had a great memory for all things retro. This was not her main thread, I realize, but this is where I got to know her and I always enjoyed her contributions. Just going to say I will miss her here too.
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Oh Eli - thanks for letting us know. I wasn't aware she had passed. I too will miss her. Damn this disease.
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Native, did you run out of memories? When I was riding my bike today, I remembered when Capri pants used to be called pedal pushers (or are those technically two different items of apparel?) All I know is I was wearing something with a short cropped leg whilst I was pushing the pedals today.
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Pedal pushers???
I think Capri's are a bit longer.......
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Then, what the heck are clam diggers? (Maybe if only worn on a coastline?) I heard both those terms in the 60's, but mainly hear them called Capri pants now.
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El, I still think of capris as pedal pushers in my mind! There is probably some technical difference, but I can't figure out what it is!So, being the curious type, I did a quick web search and found this:
The 3 types of cropped pants. (Maybe 4.)
Generally speaking, "cropped pants" refers to any pair of pants that is, well, cropped. In other words, shorter than a standard hem length.
But in between the tops of your feet and the bottoms of your knees, there are lengths that correspond to particular styles of cropped pants, listed here in order from a little bit cropped to a lot.
- Ankle pants. This length is exactly what you think it is: cropped to hit just above your ankle bones.
- Capri pants. Shorter than ankle pants, classic Capri pants come to a length that's slightly longer than halfway between the knee and the ankle. (Look at the length on the two examples Grace Kelly is wearing.) They also can come in a length that hits at about the mid calf. More on this later.
- Clamdiggers. Picture someone who has rolled up their pants to walk on the beach barefoot, digging for clams. Yep, that's the length this corresponds to. Sometimes used interchangeably with Capris, true clamdiggers are more likely to be looser and cuffed, so I'm counting them as a separate length and style.
- Pedal pushers. The shortest you can get without wearing actual shorts, pedal pushers end just below the knees (as opposed to Bermuda shorts, that end just above them).
From <http://www.franticbutfabulous.com/the-nearly-definitive-guide-to-cropped-pants/>
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Growing up in Maine, "Clam diggers" weren't a kind of pant so much as the way pants got rolled up to go wading or, surprise, digging for clams. Later, Clam Diggers were just below the knee length pants with a cuff, either made that way or created by rolling up some of the leg..
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Nowadays, we call these Clam Diggers:
notice the tie at the knee.
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I knew you could clear all that up, NM! I think the diagram has the pedal pushers a little longer than as described. Turns up I WAS wearing pedal pushers (as per the written description. Mine ended just below the knee cap. Bonus about the Bermuda shorts, I was thinking about those recently too.
Now culottes...I think of those as a skirt divided into leg holes. When they came to fashion, the skirts were about the length shown in that diagram, so o.k.; but I think of culottes as being ANY length shorter than gaucho pants. In the 70's, I had some culottes that were short enough to get me sent home from school. That in itself was remarkable because hot pants were in style and girls regularly wore those (quite stylishly, I might add, with over the knee boots,) so I was not really dressing that scandalously.
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I agree the diagram has the length of clam diggers too long, but fashion clam diggers and working clam diggers may be different things. I've always thought of culottes as various lengths, too, but don't go by me because I always thought Bermuda shorts where knee length or just below the knee length!
These are what I found searching short culottes, I remember them being called tap pants or skorts.
I mostly think of this when I think of culottes:
Culottes look like a skirt, and people don't notice they are actually pants until someone moves a certain way.
These are shown when I search culottes, but I would call them gauchos:
obviously pants, very loose but not pretending to be a skirt.
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A skort. I have heard culottes go by that name also. Yes, they should have the appearance of a skirt. My objectionable culottes had pleats in front and looked like a short skirt, but no shorter than actual regular skirts that were being worn to school at the time, so who even knew there was a "no culottes" edict? Looked something like this (but mine was cuter):
I just had a repressed Humbert Humbert running my school. When he called my mom at work to tell her I was being sent home because of my choice of apparel, she basically told him not to call her work again unless it involved actual injury. (Seems my disdain for authority is an inherited trait. Ahahaha.)
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That reminds me. At the same time as "my incident" there was another 70's fashion called a "Sizzler" (a dress so short, it came with matching panties that could flash into view with very little effort) and these could be worn without impunity at my school; and like the hot pants, they were way shorter than my culottes!
Looking back, I remember having a white floral Sizzler that I wore to a summer wedding and it looked totally appropriate for my age and good lookin' legs!
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If you were a young girl in the 70's, you probably learned how to do macrame. I did. Made a few necklaces. I remember how elaborate they could get, but I never got past the basics.
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Culottes look like a skirt, and people don't notice they are actually pants until someone moves a certain way. 
obviously pants, very loose but not pretending to be a skirt.