In the 1920s and '30s (in America, at least), t-bars began to be unfashionable. Instead, men began to wear their new chains --chains just like yours-- hanging across from the lefthand waistcoat pocket to the righthand one (either the upper or the lower pockets, according to taste). On one end...
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Sounds like the potential benefits (energy and vigor, a willingness to learn and to please) might not outweigh the potential drawbacks (immaturity, a generation gap between the two of you).
It's not the (truly skillful) dancing that grates on me in this YouTube clip: it's the music in the background! What's with those voices chirping "la la la"?
I went in the opposite direction: preppy, then punkish, then goth (which was called 'new romantic' back then), then -- well, pretty much what I am now. Thought about going necrobilly, but didn't bother.
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If you're in your 20s or beyond, what did you look like as a teenager? Show us -- if you dare. ;)
Here's me at 16 in 1983, at a Christmas event somewhere. Was wearing a navy blue blazer, semi-spread collared shirt, wool 'shepherd's check' necktie, my grandfather's pocket handkerchief, a...
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