School Dress Code 1950s - Hilarious
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- This is one of my favorite clips from my 1950s 1960s collection used to create my television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties. Hicksville high school, Long Island, right near where I grew up in Levittown Long Island. I wore some of the "not proper school attire" and later became a rebel, as most of my friends did. I wish I had more of this film to present to my subscribers.
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She'd flip about dress code in this day
Stroke level
That's for damn sure
I 100% agree to the lady in the video. The only reason girls wares tight clothes is to show their sexuality. That shouldn't be acceptable in anywhere, let alone in school. Unless you are in sex business.
The liberated woman: Shaved head, green coloured armpit hair, and from the neck down tattoos everywhere.
In my middel school when you got dress coded they made you change into this very ugly T shirt and gym pants and they keep your clothes at the office until the day ends
They would stroke out if they saw what these kids wore today in middle school!!
Lol @ stoke out 😂😂😂
Middle schools no longer require khakis, polo shirt, and black athletic shoes with no fancy stitching or design?
Public schools only pretty much forbid shoulders to be showing and no shorts above mid thigh
Nick lol not my middle school. I’m a sophomore in high school now. When I was in middle school girls showed their shoulders all the time. As long as it wasn’t belly’s being shown it was fine and in my high school some girls are doing that.
I like that expression - stroke out. hahhahahaha
Leather jacket and jeans past: Must be a delinquent.
Today: So classy
Have you seen the price of a real leather jacket today.
If it's like a Schott, it will be hundreds of dollars, but if you get a basic one from an Army surplus store or online, you can easily get a genuine leather one for around $100 bucks. I got a basic FMC one for around that price, which is around the same price for a decent winter or ski jacket as well.
I still think that combo is the universal example of cool. And rolled up sleeves and cuffed leggings are sexy.
Generation Gap!
It's never been classy. The leather jacket and rolled up Levi jeans have always been a sign of rebellion. It's the first true form of a teenage/young adult subculture that followed with hippies mods metalheads punks goths ect. The true greaser look will always stand out as rebellion.
@@punkyagogo schott though is made in the usa, and made for rideing not just for looks, if its made over seas its a bit cheaper but even surplus people have wised up and had a oh ho moment and jacked up the price for what they fetch today and also the fact that its part of history now it commands a bonus for that, and if you can even find anymore
I love how the teens in their 'bad taste of attire' pose for the camera lol. Especially the girl wearing the tight skirt strutting her stuff 😁
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its like a fassion show!
@@jaminova_1969 For real lol. She's doing the Vogue!
this video is true...my grandpa once put on a leather jacket in school and he got possesed by a demon
I hate when that happens
I died hahaha
it's true. i was the school.
i was the leather jacket
Reniun I was the buttplugg
As late as the late 1970s, large hoops or dangling earrings were not allowed in my midwestern high school. They said it was because they could get caught on someone's clothes in gym class "and tear your earlobe." Truth was we weren't allowed to wear anything that called attention to ourselves. Even printed t shirts, they'd send you to the bathroom and make you wear it inside out.
That's absolutely true as I'm a mother of five and four of them was in school during this time
When I was in junior high school us girls would wear the huge hoop earring’s and the boys would save the straw wrappers from lunch to “shoot” thru our earrings! This was around 1973. LOL. When I was in ninth grade there was a boy that sat behind me that would snap my bra. Today that could get you suspended for sexual harassment.
@@donnadrane4977 Yeah, it's great that people are learning that you shouldn't have to put up with that behavior from boys or anyone. It always made me and other girls feel gross and a kind of violated. Plus, it hurt like hell.
I'm also glad the whole lie that we were told "Oh, a boy is bullying you? Physically and/or verbally and making you crying every day? Aw! He just likes you!"
I'm beyond happy that most of us are no longer telling our girls that if a boy is physically and verbally abusive towards them, it means they like them and that it's actually sweet. It's not. My bullies made me miserable every day. It messes with your head and you can end up in abusive relationships later on in life because the whole time you were growing up, you were told that horribly mean words and bruises equals love.
Paint the inside of the shirt. Lol.
@@donnadrane4977did you deck/smack him? Or what did you do?
I know folks are laughing and saying things like "They would gasp if they saw how kids dressed today." However, the reason why this (silly by out standards) dress code was in effect was because upper middle class kids were copying what they thought how inner city gang kids dressed (because of movies like "Rebel Without A Cause" and "The Wild One.")
Upper middle class kids dressed like this as a mild form of "rebellion" (along with chewing gum and occasionally mouthing off, in a very mild fashion.) That's how we remember it today.
And for THESE kids, that was, for the most part, as far as their "rebellion" went.
What made school officials admittedly paranoid (and caught up in hysteria) was reports of REAL gang kids, in places like Highbridge Park, New York, the lower East Side of Manhattan, East Los Angeles, or the Hunter's Point area of San Francisco, who sometimes dressed like this, who did indeed engage in drive by shootings (yes, they had that in the 1950's, in certain inner city areas, and sorry if that goes against the "nostalgic" good old days thinking), and stabbings, and other truly bad things, that wannabe "bad" kids in nice neighborhoods (like the students from this school's neighborhood) mildly emulated, with leather jackets and jeans.
Think of it like today's kids who live in rich neighborhoods trying to look like gangster rappers, with their pants hanging down.
Below is a link about the Michael Farmer murder of 1957. He was a 15 year old partially handicapped polio survivor who was murdered by members of The Egyptian Kings and Dragons street gangs at Highbridge Park, New York over "rights" to use a swimming pool, and it was the 12th teen homicide by youth gangs in New York that summer of 1957:
facebook.com/groups/notnostalgia/permalink/1218963211783766/
One of the gang leaders of that murder, at the time of his arrest, did dress like this. Did dressing like this actually cause teen crime? Of course not. (It's way more complicated than simply how a kid dresses.)
But paranoid adults of that time wanted an "easy" way to visually distinguish a "good" kid from a "bad" kid, and as mistaken as that approach was, I kind of see why they did it.
Was there paranoia in the 1950's that often manifested itself in ridiculous ways, such as this dress code? Absolutely.
But...was their reasoning based at least in part, on genuine fears of real events? Yes.
>who did indeed engage in drive by shootings (yes, they had that in the 1950's, in certain inner city areas, and sorry if that goes against the "nostalgic" good old days thinking)
Why would that go against it? Murder rules!!!
My grandpa says he got in so much trouble for always wearing all black to school in the 50s. I never understood why until I saw this video 😹
Was your grandpa Johnny Cash?
My school should have considered themselves lucky that I bothered putting pants on in the morning.
at least back then you didn't have to worry about getting shot going to school like it is today !
Bill Smith that’s a mood
I'd say we were all lucky.
Watch out for those Dungarees lol
Julie Casey Yeah they are the pathway to Hell. LOL
Iron Heart you’re weird
As a BA in history I enjoyed this. Few people realize how conservative America really was in the '50s. Extremely conservative.
John Roberts Nowadays many city schools have uniform requirements because anything else might be gang colors. These uniform requirements have done absolutely nothing to reduce the gang problem in our cities. ♣
Conservative and oppressive
Jonny Quest Went from one extreme to the other extreme because the West is too stupid to understand that balance is what people need.
@@WytZox1 Well cities crime and school related homcides are actually down compared to the 1990s
It was a morally uptight era which had black and white views on certain issues like race and sexuality and things wouldn't change until the 1960s when the Counterculture took place.
Omg I was laughing my ass off when she said extremely tight skirt loll lol that's baggy as hell
tropicalum pretty tight. I like to be able to run in a dress honestly.
Not really.... Compared to skinny jeans, yes.
Samantha - Not around the waist.
Excuse me?
Straight up the mormons that came to my door had a dress as loose as that. The people at the school are freaking puritans lmao
I actually saw this clip in high school in the 70's. We thought is was extreme back then.
If she only knew what people where today....
Gregory Erickson wear: refers to clothing
Where: refers to a place
Hurd - You should have added: and were is the past of the verb To Be !
@@pedrolistacarey4880 But were doesn't sound like where or wear, nor was it relevant to the discussion.
@@c.a.g.3130 I see what you did their.
Wear**
I am Hicksville High School 80's graduate and I walked in these very fields. The 80's dress code was no shorts for the boys. The classrooms were not air-conditioned and it was sometimes brutally hot and humid. The boys were mad because girls were allowed to wear mini-skirts.
Those guys are nuts! I encourage all girls to wear miniskirts any time they want to!
Brad the Pitts. Now guys wear skirts too.
I would have loved to see the guys in my high school wear miniskirts. They could have just wore those mini shorts though. A guy would have a hard time keeping his legs together or crossed tight enough to not expose themselves wearing a miniskirt though I would still like to see that dilemma in practice. I suppose that would prove the dress code argument of distracting fashion choices. 🎭 🕊.
@@genericamerican7574 I remember that the class clown said he found a legal loophole and he wore a kilt to school. He was sent home and told that he must wear pants. He came back with pants that were cut up with a scissor and almost completely shredded.
Brad the Pitts j
You got to admit, all of the outfits seen are nice.
I’m a private elementary educator , and my students wear uniforms . I still loved the clothing rebellion of this time period . It screamed I won’t be just like my father , and I won’t be on Valium like my mother !
At one high school (Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, PA - near Philadelphia) the students voted about 10 years ago to get red & white uniforms. Although the school had a dress code back in the 50s and 60s, and even a "taste code" in the 70s, it never had uniforms. When asked "why??", most replied that they were just tired of all the dressing competition! They didn't want to have to be self-conscious and try to figure out what to wear. The uniform is light fitting and uses sweaters instead of coats or suits. Search the school if you want to see the uniforms or what they are up too.
bighands69 actually it is supposed to save money.
I wore a uniform in school for all 12 years. I think this video sucks and so does the uniform. It was crap to wear and stunted my development as a woman. I needed to look good not like some ugly, cloned robot.
Lara Gravenor 😂😂😂😭😭😭🙄🙄🙄
I begged to go to Catholic school because they had better academic standards, but mostly because they wore uniforms. When you have to wear hand me downs and second hand clothes that other kids' moms sold at the consignment shop, you learned what high school hell is.
I too was born in 1950. We were always polite to our elders, made sure we did our best in school, and attended church every Sunday. We were very lucky in that we never were afraid to ask for help and truly believed we would have the success our parents did. "Leave it to Beaver" was very close to how our lives were.
Good Comment "Brock White"....I was born right after WWII and my life style experience during the 50's was as you stated. I, too, have often thought how the "Leave it to Beaver" TV show was typical of 1950's American family culture..
1950?! Wow, must have been a bit of a shock to experience the transition of people’s lifestyle😂
Also can I ask a question? Was there a lot of racism and sexism back then? Were the people of different races in separate schools or did everyone mix? Because I don’t see any multiculturalism in any of these types of videos.
Diamond GemsXd multiculturalism is a 2010s plus thing. Most people were more happy in the 50s-80s.
Attending church isn't really something.
0:32 now that's a cool cat
Popped collar and everything!
Lol, crazy kids! Hicksville Junior High Rebels!!! Thank you David. 😊
I like how they are proudly flaunting the rules.
As we speak, I'm 67 years old. As Edward R. Murrow would say " You Were There". Yes I was there and it was a far more civilized and cultured time. Yes there were racial problems and yes there were injustices. So whats changed? However when young males had a dispute a fist-fight would ensue, not a gangland massacre. Old people were respected and believe me you never, "I MEAN NEVER," addressed an adult by their first name. It was always Mr. or Mrs. and so-forth. And yes we knew what our mothers wooden cooking spoon was also used for. Not to mention our father leather belt. I can feel it now and it still hurts. Oh, and in case you think I was a model child let me tell you "NOT SO". I was hell on wheels and I still managed to grow up to be a productive member of society. Most of us did. Adios amigos.
Okay??
+KoivuTheHab Actually I did, but she's making a bragging point how people are so rude today. Kinda weird because my grandfather who was born in 1922 would pull the fire alarm, stole his high school school bus after throwing the drivers hat off and taking his seat and then pulling the bell tower with a rope while the cops showed up. You act like the 50's were so nice. But there was racism and hated towards gays.. women were considered inferior to men and I was also spanked with a belt as a kid and so were many other kids too that I knew. You're not special and neither is the the girl in the original comment. Get off your high horse princess.
+KoivuTheHab Get a life.
Sara Johnstone made a childish remark she is just throwing something out at random rather then sitting down and really thinking her remark through its juvenile and childish and Datbuckdoe no your a disrespectful person who needs their mouth rinsed out with soap learn some respect or dont talk at all and your the one who needs to get a life or at the very least grow up I agree fully with KoivuTheHab im 21 years old and I can see how childish both you and sara are being his right you both need to grow up.
A rather rude comment to make to someone who agreed with you if you must know I can write English properly but I do have dyslexia making spelling no matter how easy the word hard I tend to have my letters become mixed up without even meaning to sir so maybe next time you see a comment with mixed words or some form of spelling error you will take into some form of consideration that they too have some form of issue dealing with spelling as I do.
LOL the "bad kids" actually look cool and stylish. Also, hi Rizzo @ 0:23.
I beg to differ
They look too frumpy honestly, and bad fit.
I was reminded of Rizzo too! Love Grease ❤️
The squares and the toughs both looked pretty fly....
I love that word...dungarees
"Getting everyone to look alike and dress alike isn't a new idea....I saw it once before on a film, it was in black and white, but I couldn't understand a word of it, because the narration was in German!"~George Carlin
Wrong...the narration was in Russian, and/or Chinese...!
@proud2bpagan, Whilst I agree with you, the quote is wrong when george carlin was talking about school uniforms not casual clothes.
I lived it. It was truly a kinder, gentler time.
No it wasn't. Schoolyard bullying was allowed, sexual harrassment was passed off as flirting, girls were actively discouraged from having any ambitions, segregation was normalized, etc.
@Kai Evans I think you just proved his point.
It was kind to you if you played by the rules and were white.
@@dula.peep. You lived then?
“This student is wearing an extremely tight skirt...” I’ve always remembered that line after seeing this clip for the first time in the early 1970s.
In the early 70's? How old are you?
@@JohnKienle3840 I'm 65. There ya go.
Both sides look adorable! The “rebel” kids could easily fit in today 🖤
My Dad used to tell me how he was suspended once in 56 for wearing dungarees,and another time for having his sideburns too low
I thought all the kids’ attire looked fine to me. Just imagine if she seen what kids wear to school today. She would probably have a nervous breakdown. 😂
Hello Karen, How are you doing?
“ExTrEmElY tIgHt SkIrT”
Dress codes were there for a reason, like somebody already said. We don't have many/severe dress codes nowadays, and look at what people are wearing...pants hanging down so their butts are visible, tight SHORT shorts, shirts where you can see a little too much...yeah, I'd much rather have dress codes like this.
Me too!
Dear Nicole. I would suggest you search on my TH-cam channel and watch parts of my documentary series on the 60s. You will see that this dress code and others like it we used by the authorities to control teenagers in ways that treated us like children. You may not like the current dress that some wear or it may make you uncomfortable, but I can assure you that it is better to have some of the outrageous then all controlled in some kind of tyranny has existed back then for any teenagers who wanted to be “different” in any way. Thank you for your comment.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
+1!
Well, David Hoffman, teenagers ARE technically children, and this is coming from a 15 year old. And Junior High students, like in this video, are definitely still children.
Baba Looey Exactly!👍🏻
The kid in the leather jacket was like, if I wanna dress like the fonz from Happy days then that's what I'm gonna do.😂😂😂
Hey, at least the boys arent wearing skinny jeans!
Hide the sauce!!!! X Guys get made fun of if they wear baggy jeans, then guys get made fun of for wearing skinny jeans. Make up your damn mind!
Which are bad somehow for just shaping the calf.
I’m very skinny so skinny jeans actually fit well on me.
Lando Lanstetter Do you even HAVE genitalia?
@@deanwinchester3356 Idiot,by baggy people mean those afwul rap style "jeans" where even an obese man could fit. Skinny jeans are disgusting and vile and should be banned because they look horrible and they are bad for your testicales. Straight of slim fit jeans or trousers with a nice clean shirt TUCKED IN YOUR PAINTS is the classiest and best style for any man
damn dude, ankle bracelets are pretty OG
I'm surprised that 1 girl had on pants. I think it was 1965 before we could wear pants to school. We weren't allowed to wear Jean's until 1969. Merrillville, Indiana
The girl at 0:24 ....her skirt is almost to her ankles and is actually quite baggy yet there was still a problem? None of these people were dressed poorly.
Horseman Secretariat But those curves, those sinful sinful curves!
Horseman Secretariat they look like extras for the film grease 😂😂
@MrOverCritical1989 I disagree, I think that school is a place of both expressing yourself and learning
@@liv6030 - No.
That's what's amazing, their sloppy or sleazy dress is at such a higher standard than what we have been seeing in the last few years, that to us it looks well-groomed.
"Extremely tight skirt" *is wrinkled and blowing in the wind*
When I went to high school in Toronto in the late 1950's/early 1960's, girls had to wear skirts and blouses or dresses, nylons (no pantyhose back then)or knee socks. Boys could not wear jeans, t-shirts or so-called running shoes. The most casual footwear were the "Desert boots" or Wallabee suede shoes. Thinking back, what WAS hilarious were the blue "bloomers" girls wore for phys ed. How times have changed. Nowadays, almost anything goes.
Lucky you. At least you lived in a better time period. Going to school 🏫 back then must have been a lot better than today of course.
That was beautiful. How I wish we would dress like that today.
Look what dungarees and tight skirts let to.....
This is probably my favorite under a minute video I’ve been recommended in a long time. I would love to see her reaction to some of the clothing that’s allowed today.
I grew up in Farmindale, N.Y. Billy Joel went to Hicksville H.S. my fathere had a little store on Jerusalem avenue in hicksville. Brings back alot of memories. I remember the Bethpage farmers market on 106. Fun memories.
I grew up in Levittown Phyllis. I know Farmingdale very well. And Hicksville. And I was in high school at the time when they were showing this movie clip to us kids.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
@Jim Moriarity You are very true kids today need to be more like kids back then.
Honey you should see the kids today THANKS DISNEY
Coquille Peace what did Disney have to do with this?
They wear Disney shirts because its has always been a popular brand?
Can you explain why you mentioned Disney?
The fuck is the purpose of this comment!? Is it because people like Frozen? Dude, people loved the Lion King to death back then!
I am in 6th grade and I wear the same thing that the kid in the leather jacket was wearing because I am a greaser
Hell im 65 and I still wear my BLACK JACKET
0:27
meanwhile in 2017...
I dress like that at home , and spend the day , listening to any old music will do, to motivate me !
At some point wearing a suit and a tie will become rebellious.
This kinda makes Grease look fairly lighthearted
0:19 I'm surprised there's no comment about her V-neck!
The first set looks good to me! 🤩
Better fashion back then tbh
It's sixty-nine years later, and boy, school dress codes (or lack thereof) could not be more different.
I love how they just make the jump to bad behavior 😂😡
lol tight skirts and ankle bracelet and leather jacket it's the thing they worry about in the fifties LOL only if they see 2017 how student dresses in School
I looove that leather jacket.
That gasp at the end tho
Today even the unexceptable group looks better than the way many kids dress today, and the garment industry is no help either, putting out outfits with less and less material just to save a buck.
I love watching these beautiful or videos too see vintage style Inspo!
0:30 These boys have their shirts well tucked in. That's fancy today!
OMG... Hicksville is right next to where I grew up too. I went to JFK high in Plainview, and we used to compete with them in sports.... I graduated in 73, and by 70 it seemed the students were able to topple the dress code through protest. It was the girls who started wearing pants and sent home, until most of the girls showed up to school on cold days wearing "dungarees", and the liberal parents supported them all the way. If the boys could wear it, so could the girls.
That was it, dress code was done.
oh yeah... I lived in Levittown until I was two, but visited there regularly over the years, because my parents still had friends there.
They dressed so much better back then.
Hehe....dungarees. Denim, the devil’s cloth in those days, I s’pose.
Lord if they saw 2018
screw that. I'd rather be home schooled.
study some Science subjects in my pajamas the whole day.
+Duane Locsin yeah, try interviewing for a job in the real world in your "pajamas"
+inkey2 why would I go to a job interview in my pajamas?
0:31 this guys gonna sell him some lollipops
At Least there not showing off their underwear
Because boxers never do that?
This is great stuff!. Funy now, but rather serious subject matter back then. Dave, did you ever think one day there would be a format like TH-cam where you could share stuff like this and your own personal work with the entire world??
JUNIOR HIGH?! Those cats and chicks look like the Welcome Wagon for Squaresville, daddy!
I think times have gotten better generally. People aren't unnessecarily as strict anymore, especially about stuff like this. The 50s seemed to have been pretty conservative compared to now. I mean the clothes those kids were wearing were not bad at all.
It's unfortunate to see what kids wear now days to school.
Little did they know in the future we'd be wearing what's just water proof underwear to the beach, water park, ext.
No dungarees, damnit!
My first year of high school, we couldn't wear jeans or long pants even to football games in the late autumn. Finally, the parents complained and it changed. Try to climb open bleachers at a football game while being modest yet wearing a skirt. Boys under the bleachers got a show :0.
0:45 Hicksville! ☻
Long Island?
Yes. right near where I grew up in Westbury Levittown.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
Nice! My dad was born in Levittown. So was the great Billy Joel. Nice clip. I would have loved to experience the 50s. I was born in 75.
That one dude looked like Elvis. Probably not an accident!
No, he doesn't, like, not at all. That's just your American brainwashed sheepish mind, going by what the media has told you. The gentleman in this video is a greaser. I'm not gonna get into the fine details, but he does NOT resemble Elvis just because Elvis wore a couple leather jackets at a very few specific moments in his life.
Those 30 year olds are supposed to be in junior high/middle school?!?!
Look at the school yearbooks--that's unfortunately what kids looked like. Adults with all the sass kicked out of them.
Dungarees in Hicksville are just beyond all notions of decency.
"Dungarees." I almost forgot that word. Notice the "good" kids are supposedly junior high kids but look like they're 40.
The girl wearing the tight skirt and her strong man walk😂😂😂😂 bet she thought she was really rebelling.
Why would kids want to dress like their parents or grandparents? I think I will live in the present, thank you! There are more options for everyone now. Also, you can be who you are, and you don't have to hide who you are anymore. Schools still have dress codes, you know. I mean, not all girls dress like prostitutes going to school, and not all boys dress like gang bangers attending school either! The lady in the video is judging a book by its cover, which prevents her from getting to know the kids under the clothes! The kids who are wearing inappropriate clothing could be well-behaved students! While the kids wearing proper attire may be the troublemakers! The irony of that would definitely be hilarious!
For the record, I miss the late 90's and the early 2000's. I still listen to TLC's old albums like Fanmail, Oooohh on The TLC Tip, and Crazy, Sexy, Cool, and the band The Verve Pipe for crying out loud! My point is that people have their own special eras in which they would want to relive!
whoa! i can literally walk for five minutes to hicksville my neighborhood is connected
Remember, this is Hicksville. Your local community standards may differ.
Tearing down dressing standards from then, led to the slippery slope of 'fashion' today
America was a proper society in the 50s. What a shame today.
I love my dungarees.
Everyone's going on about how it was better in those times and whatever. Honestly, I think this generation is great. Do you want to wear booty shorts? Great. Your body, stay safe be careful etc. Do you want to wear dungarees? Cool great, your body, stay safe be careful etc. You want to wear any sort of clothes? Great. Your body stay safe ect.
Self respect is up to the individual and should be none of your concern.
If they feel like they a respectable then thats that. You should not be worried in the slightest. Of course there are some bounderies here and there, as I wouldn't want my son/daughter leaving the house naked. So yes there is an extreme. But however, I personally enjoy the freedom I have in what I wear, I love how open everyone is now. I love the new subcultures and range of ideas and clothes and how easy it is to express yourself outside the norm someone labelling you as some sort of bad criminal person like these teddy kids were labelled as.
You don't like it? You don't like this 'modern society' that is more accepting to pretty much everyone? You don't like this generation of accepting kids who don't find it disgusting anymore to see a gay couple in public or a black man in the streets?
Go live with the armish or something smh. And honestly the fashion of the "rebel" kids looked awesome. The others looked like something out of pleasantville before it went to colour tbh. Boring as hell.
PS: Everything I said aside I love this video so much. It shows how far we've moved on to whats acceptable and whats not. A bit of an eye opener as well. I still stick to my opinion and this is more aimed at everyone in the comments. But Thanks for uploading it.
Chloe Melo I'd rather live back then Tbh I am mixed and can pass as Italian so it would be all good. Also the streets were more safe then now you can't even walk to school plus the music was good and some years later the Beatles came along then it's the 60's fuck today the music is shit and the youth is cancer. I could care less about the segregation because it goes away in the mid 60's anyway. Women dressed nice and men dressed clean now people go to school wearing sweat pants and a shitty shirt. People were more respectful back then. Bottom line it was way better especially if you are a music fanatic like me. I would gladly go back in time I don't need my phone like everyone thinks today's youth does. Remember family dinners when people used to talk? Remember when you used to be able to go to events and have fun with friends now it's unsafe Af. Remember when you didn't have to worry about a school shooter? remember when dances required some talent and white people didn't try to steal peoples culture? I'm just rambling on honestly it's a matter of opinion but I hate 2016 its depressing to see these videos because to me time was so much better back then, I don't even watch tv or listen to the radio anymore because of what black culture has done to the USA (I am black by the way) black people ruined the US culture and if white people say it's fucking stupid they get called racist, but it is stupid and it's the worst thing about America. I don't hate black people I hate all people. Bottom line again times were so much simpler.
+Kobe Official You do realise that being Black in the sixties wasn't so fun right? Whether segregation did end in 1964 or not. This is also coming from someone who is mixed with parents who escaped a war. And not only that has been told to go back to their own country several times. And also what kind of people have you been hanging around with if you think that all families don't talk to each-other at dinner times? Does your family not talk to each-other at dinner times? I know mine and others do. Talking at the dinner table is a family preference and it always has been. No era is going to change that.
Also, I'd like to point out that depending on where you are the crime rate will vary and it always has been that way. So really it just depends on where you go. It has nothing to do with the year 2000 rolling in and suddenly every back alley is a war zone.
Not to mention you must be pretty sad if you're one of those close minded people that think all music from 2000's onwards is bad. Either you haven't stepped outside of your comfort zone or you're simply not bothered. I don't want to get into an argument about music because it's so open ended, but honestly my music taste ranges from Beatles to Beyonce to Ride to Massive Attack so I guess I would call myself open to anything.
And also what the hell? School shootings aren't a new thing: February 2, 1960, Hartford City, Indiana. March 30, 1960 Alice, Texas. August 1, 1966, Austin Texas SEVENTEEN DEATHS. 18 school shootings during the 60s I know it's no where near to what it is now but its definitely not new.
Not only that but funnily enough the 1960's didn't just happen in America wowza surprise surprise the 1960's happened ALL OVER THE WORLD. Holy shit! Amazing isn't it!
But yeah like I said before who have you been hanging around with? What type of people do you talk too? Because I know in my school (which isn't in a rich area in the slightest mind you.) has the most well dressed and presentable kids I've seen, even if they can't afford it they still manage to pull something off.
So perhaps its not the youth today because what the hell?! The youth isn't cancer, the youth is inspiring, full of ideas and questions and things to try and do. You seem far too lost in your own little bubble if you think that everything in the modern day is bad. So either pop that bubble and go listen to some new bands or talk to some new people. If you don't like the idea of giving it ago you'll forever stay miserable. Go live with the Amish if you like the old.
I'm not saying let go of the past, I love some of the old values, some of the older fashions and some of the older music. I personally grew up listening to psychedelic music.
I went through that phase too, thinking that anything modern was shit until I started becoming more opened minded and giving some pop bands a chance. Or if that's not for you giving some new underground bands a chance or just being open to absolutely everything a chance.
I even gave god damn dubstep a chance.
As much as I disagree with majority of things said in your paragraph you have there, I will agree on the whole cultural appropriation shit that pisses me off too the core. And with the whole white people thinking they're oppressed bull shit lol.
But in conclusion, every era has its pros and cons. Honestly I don't like majority of the 60's ideas of the sort of housewife, close minded thinking. I also and you shouldn't be so reserved to one idea thinking everything else is shit.
PS: What some one wears is absolutely none of your business. If you want women to respect themselves hang out with women who do. But don't shove it in anyones face.
Thank you Chloe for your thoughtful and three-dimensional comment. Some of the comments on this clip from my film come from people who lived at the time and didn't suffer the experiences so many had. My experience in making the series is that about 20% of American young people felt “comfortable” but the over 80% suffered greatly, black white handicapped Latino Gay straight Jewish nerdy and so many other people marginalized. Mostly white middle class Christian males who were good at athletics did well. Look at the other clips from my series. I think you'll find them of interest.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
No way you would pass as Italian, do you even realize southern europeans weren't considered white in the US 60 years ago right? Not even Irish were considered fully white at the time, please, educate yourself on what your ancestors had to go through, and also, you say that the music used to be "great", this is an over simplification, 30 years in the future I can also pick the very best songs from this generation and say "music used to be much more better!" And no, times where not so much simpler if you were not white, you had to deal with blatant racism and even the legal systems would fuck you for it simply because everyone, including cops, judges, and many more were racists, fucking hell, just look at what happened to Emmit Till in the mid 1950s, the guy got tortured by two white males which were judged not guilty by an all white jury, same thing would have happened to you, and your family would be left in despair to see how no justice was done, simply because of your color, so if you want to go back to those times, first you can't, and even if you would, you inmediatly would regret it, I hope 4 months later you understand how utterly stupid your comment was.
Everything that was available back then can be found in present day, with modern commodities and easier access. Your favorite music is readily available online, you can still hang out with your loved ones at a malt shop or whatever, you can dress in a varsity cardigan or a leather jacket, anything you really want.
It sounds like people only like the aesthetics, which again, are still around in present day. You just hate that people left those aesthetics behind for something else, which humanity has shown they eventually bring them back as "retro"/ vintage/throwbacks. Really, the only reason I can see as a good reason to live in those past times is to live through certain historical events, but that just sounds like a throwaway achievement. It seems people only fondly look back at the "simpler times" because they have modern knowledge of past events. Think of it this way, if you lived in the 50s with no future insight like everybody else, life would probably be filled with uncertainty. Let's say you were in the best possible scenario: a young, wealthy, white, American male. WW2 was over, but now there was tension regarding communists in other countries. You had the risk of getting drafted for another war, or even getting nuked by commies. Let's say something like a robbery happens, too bad criminal science is still perfecting itself. Let's say you spot a little old black woman walking around getting harassed by the neighborhood hoodlums, and you feel a bit bad about it, but oh well, it's good being white, none of your business. Your friends are openly racist, homophobic, etc, or your friend was a suicidal wreck but couldn't find the help they needed because lobotomy was a thing for the crazies. Every serious issue was kept behind closed doors. Also, you had to dig through the radio and shit to find your favorite music because there actually WAS musical crap like today. But I guess as long as they're decked out in their cool sports cardigans and poodle skirts it's all okay. You didn't have to be a minority to suffer too. Example: The awful stereotypes of highschool bullying can be attributed to these times. White people were in turmoil with each other in the streets as well. For example, in Chicago numerous white street gangs, greasers, consisting of Italians, Irish, Polish, Ukrainians, etc would murder each other then group up to fight blacks and hispanics, then go back to killing each other again. They destroyed their own neighborhoods as much as the blacks and hispanics did. From the way you described your hatred of black culture, it seems that you hate how stricter values are gone, which is dark as it leads to the conclusion that you hate humanity in general for your opinion of degeneration so much that you desperately want these "better times" back. Then why not try to change the present?
Teacher must have had a heart attack when the hippies came
When all of them have more style than anything today be like
I recall my father saying, Don't hang out with beatniks or go to HONKY TALKS
LOL welcome to Hicksville!
Just out of curiosity...do you remember Edith Prickly from SCTV? If not, as Yogi said, you should look it up!
Dress codes. They were there for a reason.
My wife and I are in our mid 70's and we've commented to each other how people in general dress like goddamn bums today. Anything goes. I guess a semblance of civilized society needs some codes of conduct. As a kid in the 50's- 60's I didn't feel compelled to look like I came from anything other than good genetic stock as far as having a sense of self worth went. You could be poor and still dress like you cared what you looked like. Being so called "controlled" was nothing more than being raised in a responsible manner. If you think today's culture has it nailed then you definitely have a nail the size of a rail spike through one ear and out the other!
I like the freedom we have now tbh. Really ankle showing was bad?? lol
The taliban used to beat the living crap out of women who dared to show ankle.
I don't think the issue was showing ankle as much as it was that she was wearing an ankle bracelet
What A Great time to live and bring up your children The past should be brought back to now days actions on the youth of today they would be better for it and less disrespect out of them
***** you missed manners class.
Raven Musa Yawn.
if only she could see how kids dress today! the kids in the video look very modest compared to today!
These are some really awesome styles, almost reminds me of the 80s?