Do 1950s High School Dress Rules Make Sense?

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  • Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
  • Millions of young baby boomers lived through the 1950s and early 1960s high school dress codes. They were strict in many places. And teens did many things to break them and rebel against them. In many ways, attempts by parents, school officials, church leaders, and political leaders, to restrict teenage dress provided the perfect foil for teenage rebellions. I lived through those dress codes and although I was not a clothing rebel, I supported those who were. I can remember high school assistant principals (they were the code enforcers) measuring skirt length and hair length. If it wasn't right, you got sent to the principal to sit in his office until you agreed to end your "clothing rebellion." I decided to make this video because of the huge response my 1950s Hicksville Long Island high school clip has provoked. I grew up at the very time this film was being presented just one town over in East Meadow/Levittown Long Island, New York.

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  • @sussekind9717
    @sussekind9717 4 місяці тому +583

    I had a 3-day suspension from Junior High because my hair was too long. My dad complained to the principal about how they are infringing upon my freedom to have my hair the way I wanted (my dad was all about personal freedom). I got the 3-day suspension anyway. When I came back, my hair was the same (perhaps a tiny bit longer). But there was nothing they could really do. They couldn't deny me an education because of my hair length, so they had to let it go. But every time I encountered the principal or assistant principal in the hallways, they would always rag on me. "When are you going to cut your hair?" Or, "You look like a criminal!" Or my favorite, "Filthy hippie!"
    The P.E. coach just started calling me "long hair".
    Ahhh... such fond memories of southern Texas in the early 80s.

    • @Will-dn9dq
      @Will-dn9dq 4 місяці тому

      When you need suicidal tendencies.
      "I wanna be a facist pigg!" The perfect reply 😂

    • @carolinecherry2423
      @carolinecherry2423 4 місяці тому +76

      80s? Good lord, I was expecting you to say 50s or early 60s!

    • @Will-dn9dq
      @Will-dn9dq 4 місяці тому +36

      @@carolinecherry2423 the 70s had the long hair popular by then. Still didn't mean grandma liked it

    • @sussekind9717
      @sussekind9717 4 місяці тому +50

      It was a small rural town. Extremely conservative. These people were still living in the 50s, early 60s.

    • @Will-dn9dq
      @Will-dn9dq 4 місяці тому +6

      @@sussekind9717 My parents were mid 30s when had me. It shows in way I talk an get along w older vs younger pll. I'm last of the kids got beaten just cause an parents weren't afraid of repercussions.

  • @slimeinc.3822
    @slimeinc.3822 4 місяці тому +116

    I graduated Catholic highschool in 2019 and they still measured our skirt lengths! All my classmates would roll theirs up at the waist to shorten them lol

    • @nexiuz2233
      @nexiuz2233 4 місяці тому +9

      Good, atleast some schools still care about children’s innocence, in a perfect world kids could wear whatever but this world is corrupt and no where near perfect

    • @joshuaohuka7719
      @joshuaohuka7719 4 місяці тому +5

      ​@@rickwilliams967 don't be that guy...

    • @joshuaohuka7719
      @joshuaohuka7719 4 місяці тому +13

      ​@@nexiuz2233 don't be stupid... Z innocence is neither derived nor preserved by skirt lengths...

    • @nexiuz2233
      @nexiuz2233 4 місяці тому

      @@joshuaohuka7719 yeah so lets let them all wear booty shorts then, you’re so stupid, skin color doesn’t make people have assumptions either

    • @doomtho42
      @doomtho42 4 місяці тому +4

      @@nexiuz2233The expression “missing the forest for the trees” isn’t quite applicable here; rather, this is a bit more like “missing the forest for a pine cone you found on your lawn.”

  • @fob1xxl
    @fob1xxl 4 місяці тому +44

    In 1960, when I was a junior in high school, the girls had to kneel on a chair, and if their skirt didn't touch the chair, they were sent home. Very few girls wore makeup. Those that did were considered "EASY" even by the boys!

    • @nexiuz2233
      @nexiuz2233 4 місяці тому +2

      Wouldn’t be considered easy without being easy

    • @katc2040
      @katc2040 4 місяці тому

      ​@@JayZee-lo8qy like the boys having sex werent easy too?

    • @katc2040
      @katc2040 4 місяці тому

      ​@@nexiuz2233 Youre disgusting

    • @420Khatz
      @420Khatz 4 місяці тому

      @@nexiuz2233Tnats total bollocks. Everyone thought I was "easy" in 8th-9th grade when I was still a virgin. Come to find out, some girl had spread a rumour that I slept with a bunch of the "weird kids" and of course, with that tumor being so juicy, it spread like wildfire.
      Your opinion is entirely stupid and unfounded.

  • @bd12544
    @bd12544 4 місяці тому +94

    My mother had to kneel in the hall, in her public high school, and got sent home because her hem was too short. Eastern Washington, late 1960s.

    • @mantiscoregaming6699
      @mantiscoregaming6699 4 місяці тому

      Good. Women like her are apart of why our world is so fucked! This is why women were made to be men's play things. It says so in the Bible. Women were made because Adam was bored and lonely. Eve was made from Adam's rib. She wasn't even created equally, women aren't equal.

  • @Nightbird1914
    @Nightbird1914 4 місяці тому +158

    I graduated in 1971. It was not until the following year that girls could wear pants.

    • @Nightbird1914
      @Nightbird1914 4 місяці тому +17

      @@whereswaldo5740 I know. I got married in 1972 and had joint card with husband.

    • @BijouxBee
      @BijouxBee 4 місяці тому +4

      I really want to know, was everybody really that thin back then? Or was it like today where the thin body standard is pushed by Hollywood? And were the women just average size like today?
      I’m 5 2” (157cm) and usually weigh 130lbs (59kgs) but I weigh 149lbs due to an autoimmune disease.
      I would’ve been considered morbidly obese back then😳

    • @Floedekage
      @Floedekage 4 місяці тому +6

      ​@@BijouxBee it has always been very different from countryside to cities and changed over the years.
      But in general as a society moves from a farming society to an industrial society and food is easily available there's not the same need to be bigger.
      Add to that the great depression where the richest capitalists were depicted as ballooningly overweight whilst many people were starving and thw 50s explosion of unhealthy foods -- the easier it is to become big, the less "attractive" is has been in society.

    • @ViolettaD1485
      @ViolettaD1485 4 місяці тому +2

      We got permission to wear pants somewhere during elementary school. Before that, you could wear thick leggings under your dress or skirt when it eas snowing, but you had to take them off in the cloakroom when you got to class.

    • @kinseylise8595
      @kinseylise8595 4 місяці тому +2

      @@ViolettaD1485 Goodness, imagine preaching modesty then telling girls to take off an extra layer!

  • @jamesmccarthy5086
    @jamesmccarthy5086 4 місяці тому +71

    This is interesting. When I went to school in the 2010’s there was nothing like that but you couldn’t wear hats nor backpacks ( in classrooms.) in my school at least. Now I think they allow both. No wonder some kids “rebelled” back in the 60’s. I don’t blame them.

    • @Dr.Sharron
      @Dr.Sharron 4 місяці тому +7

      It was only a very few students who rebelled. There were only 1 or 2 in the entire grade level who were disrespectful and disruptive in school. Today it is only 5 to 10 in an entire grade level who are taking education seriously. I guess you don't see anything wrong with this.

    • @jamesmccarthy5086
      @jamesmccarthy5086 4 місяці тому +4

      @@Dr.Sharron usually It’s been impressed upon me that everyone did it. Not just a few. It’s sad today how many kids are so darn disrespectful. Don’t assume I have no problem with that, I do. I know what it was like to have to sit through class with disruptive brats the whole time. You couldn’t learn anything.

    • @peekaboots01
      @peekaboots01 4 місяці тому +1

      Backpacks? People shouldn't be allowed to wear backpacks on buses.

    • @Thestoicstallion
      @Thestoicstallion 4 місяці тому +1

      ⁠@@Dr.Sharronyou are making up numbers purely based on your emotional disposition. Show the evidence of such vacuous claims.
      Learn to think critically before making yourself a fool.

    • @KOSVENDETTA
      @KOSVENDETTA 4 місяці тому

      @@Thestoicstallionlol do you think people or children more specifically, are actually getting smarter or more skilled?

  • @rickwrites2612
    @rickwrites2612 4 місяці тому +17

    Teen girls wore jeans in the 50s
    In rural PA in the 90s we had a high % of freaks, gays, weirdos, "alternative" types, and theater kid types at my HS. Not the majority by any means but a strong minority.
    We had a boy on the girls field hockey team (not trans, just a fan of the sport) and the coach she required him to wear the same kilt uniform.
    We had a masculine goth guy who wore long black skirts with boots and a biker jacket. We had girl on the wrestling team who later cane out as gay. One of the girls football team transitioned to male after graduating and has been living happily as a gay man for last 25 yrs. Gay couples attend prom.
    Thus was in rural PA. 30 yrs ago. It's crazy to me that people are acting like teens shouldn't have personal freedom or that any of this is new or shocking in any way. If you don't want your kids to see people like this you shpuld go join the FLDS. You aren't welcome in pluralistic society.

  • @lotstodo
    @lotstodo 4 місяці тому +41

    I remember having to kneel in front of the Principal and he would measure our skirt from the floor.

    • @lotstodo
      @lotstodo 4 місяці тому +16

      @rickwilliams967 I always thought it was creepy, when I was a bit older I understood just how creepy it was

    • @saschamayer4050
      @saschamayer4050 4 місяці тому

      What a perv. 😮

  • @msjkramey
    @msjkramey 4 місяці тому +388

    Imagine being threatened by a girl with short hair...

    • @RIPToot
      @RIPToot 4 місяці тому +13

      What?

    • @gl00merz
      @gl00merz 4 місяці тому +37

      Nothing is threatening about it - it's to preserve traditional beauty and modesty

    • @surnamismandatory7602
      @surnamismandatory7602 4 місяці тому +7

      Yo i already got planned w a gal to meet up, smoke up and shave each other head

    • @ThatsSpectacular
      @ThatsSpectacular 4 місяці тому

      As others said, it’s this whole “-phobia” interpretation that destroyed our culture. For the last time, people who recognize the value and importance of traditional mores are not “fearful,” but they are capable of measuring actions and consequences out by several decades. Whereas tolerant thinkers generally cannot do this, and so they assume bigotry and fear from the other side.

    • @uu-kq6mn
      @uu-kq6mn 4 місяці тому +43

      That's weird. Women had short hair way before the 1950s existed. What is traditional anyway? This seems more new. But then again, this is the modern era hmmmm...​@gl00merz

  • @drewpall2598
    @drewpall2598 4 місяці тому +18

    David, this post of your put me in a 1950's kick.
    "School Days"
    Chuck Berry
    Up in the mornin' and out to school
    The teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule
    American history and practical math
    You study' em hard and hopin' to pass
    Workin' your fingers right down to the bone
    And the guy behind you won't leave you alone
    Ring ring goes the bell
    The cook in the lunchroom's ready to sell
    You're lucky if you can find a seat
    You're fortunate if you have time to eat
    Back in the classroom open you books
    Gee but the teacher don't know
    How mean she looks
    Soon as three o'clock rolls around
    You finally lay your burden down
    Close up your books, get out of your seat
    Down the halls and into the street
    Up to the corner and 'round the bend
    Right to the juke joint you go in
    Drop the coin right into the slot
    You gotta hear something that's really hot
    With the one you love you're makin' romance
    All day long you been
    Wantin' to dance
    Feelin' the music from head to toe
    'Round and 'round and 'round you go
    Drop the coin right into the slot
    You gotta hear something that's really hot
    With the one you love you're makin' romance
    All day long you been
    Wantin' to dance
    Feelin' the music from head to toe
    'Round and 'round and 'round you go
    Hail, hail rock'n'roll
    Deliver me from the days of old
    Long live rock'n'roll
    The beat of the drum is loud and bold
    Rock rock rock'n'roll
    The feelin' is there body and soul

    • @lindachennault7222
      @lindachennault7222 4 місяці тому +5

      I love that. Thank you. I went to school in the fifties and sixties. I wish I had heard that then. I sure liked, Elvis, American Bandstand, and Beach Blanket movies with Annette Funicello, Disney's Micky Mouse Club. Nancy Drew Books, the Hardy Boys. Micky Rooney, Judy Garland, Shirley Temple, Sound of Music., and so much more. Doris Day. All good clean fun. Not like today's. I wish they would play some of them.

    • @drewpall2598
      @drewpall2598 4 місяці тому +2

      @@lindachennault7222 Glad that you still have fond memories of your youth and thanks for sharing them with us. 😊✌🧡

  • @googoofeesmithersmits4536
    @googoofeesmithersmits4536 4 місяці тому +47

    Imagine caring about something so fucking meaningless as how long somebody wears their hair, it's their body they can do whatever they want with it

    • @jmflyer55
      @jmflyer55 4 місяці тому +7

      Actually no. Thats the difference between today and how things used to be.
      Theres good points on both sides of the argument.

    • @DAsrada
      @DAsrada 4 місяці тому +20

      ​@jmflyer55 There is no good point to controlling people's attire and hair.

    • @scoobz4177
      @scoobz4177 4 місяці тому +22

      ​@jmflyer55 it's just hair... the absolute dull pursuits of something so meaningless when time and energy could've been spent on something more constructive.

    • @sussekind9717
      @sussekind9717 4 місяці тому +10

      Don't tell that to the Catholics. They love telling people what they can and can't do with their bodies.

    • @DAsrada
      @DAsrada 4 місяці тому +5

      @@sussekind9717 There's also Lolberty University, whose former dean violated just about every rule HE AND HIS DAD PUT IN PLACE.

  • @user-ck8yo8kg4c
    @user-ck8yo8kg4c 4 місяці тому +26

    NO patent leather shoes in Catholic School!!!
    You can see up a girls skirt.
    See "Late Night Catechism".

  • @stj971
    @stj971 4 місяці тому +2

    I remember in grade school girls had to wear skirts or dresses, no pants. Winters out on the playground we're COLD!!!🥶🥶🥶

  • @BijouxBee
    @BijouxBee 4 місяці тому +6

    I’m Aussie and wasn’t born until the 90s but one thinks I miss about school I the school uniform. Loved wearing my uniform because we didn’t have to constantly wash our every other day clothes

    • @daniellarkins3849
      @daniellarkins3849 4 місяці тому +2

      That's interesting . I personally use to hate wearing uniform but have come to appreciate it now.

    • @thekingsdaughter4233
      @thekingsdaughter4233 4 місяці тому

      ​@@daniellarkins3849 my children have a school uniform. I didn't know what to think about it (it's actually polo shirts in a handful of colors, embroidered with the school logo, and khakis, plus a standard fleece zip up for colder weather). I have come to live it. Cuts down on decision fatigue, and it's cheaper, too.

  • @jfk8540
    @jfk8540 4 місяці тому +15

    land of the free baby

  • @amandaadrienne837
    @amandaadrienne837 4 місяці тому +3

    My mom went to a Catholic highschool in the 50's. She said it was mandatory to wear pantyhose and the nuns at school would check every day. So the girls started drawing a line down their legs to mimic pantyhose. It worked for awhile. Then the nuns caught on and from then on would pinch the girls' legs everyday to check if they were wearing pantyhose.

  • @hanchee2664
    @hanchee2664 4 місяці тому +2

    When I was in school my principal sent home 150 girls because their skirts were too short. It made national news

  • @LaDivinaLover
    @LaDivinaLover 4 місяці тому +21

    The amount of control over people the church once exerted is INSANE.

    • @ominouspotato5208
      @ominouspotato5208 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@TshepoKoteloI'd rather not go back to holy wars that slaughtered entire populations of innocent people, witch hunting that also killed thousands of innocent people, and the violent battle against public education and technological progress during the dark ages if I'm being honest

    • @ominouspotato5208
      @ominouspotato5208 4 місяці тому +3

      @@TshepoKotelo this was the worst point you could have attempted to make in response

    • @nerdy8644
      @nerdy8644 4 місяці тому +5

      Which is why paganism is better

    • @ominouspotato5208
      @ominouspotato5208 4 місяці тому +1

      @@TshepoKotelo sinners don't exist, because neither does god (edit I just wanted to see if I could piss him off but he didn't bite)

    • @user-ut7hh3zb2f
      @user-ut7hh3zb2f 4 місяці тому

      @@TshepoKotelo No we don't.

  • @DanaTheInsane
    @DanaTheInsane 4 місяці тому +12

    Makes me so glad I went to school in the 70s.

    • @msjkramey
      @msjkramey 4 місяці тому +7

      Did you guys have smoking areas for students when you went? My aunt had them when she went to school but my mom didn't and they're just a few years apart. I went to the same high school as them. Now the "smoking courtyard" is the "senior courtyard"

    • @ViolettaD1485
      @ViolettaD1485 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@msjkrameywe had them, also open campus. I would try to get all my free periods at the end of the day so I could just go home. The class after us didn't get it, because too many kids were sneaking into the cul-de-sac on the other side of the driveway hedge to smoke weed.

    • @alaricabercrombie2692
      @alaricabercrombie2692 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@msjkrameyYes, my high school did back in the 1980s. My school's rules for using the smoking court were you had to be a junior & a senior and your parents had to sign a yearlong (school year term) smoking permission slip that the school kept in its office files. And last but, not least, you were only allowed to smoke during your lunch period. The only way to gain access to this smoking courtyard was through the cafeteria.

  • @chrissygriffin6287
    @chrissygriffin6287 4 місяці тому +2

    When I was in school we could only use clear bookbags and weren't allowed no sweat pants because we could hide guns. This was late 80s early 90s in Baltimore

  • @runpullfourskinz6796
    @runpullfourskinz6796 3 місяці тому +2

    There's a movie to be made about a teacher from the 50s time travelling to a modern classroom.

  • @drewpall2598
    @drewpall2598 4 місяці тому +4

    This was cool David I love looking through old year books and see how style have change over the years.

  • @AshesAshes44
    @AshesAshes44 3 місяці тому +1

    My cousin is a good few years older than me, and she encountered the late 60s head on. No pins for her-- she had a length of elastic around her waist. The top of her skirt rolled up around the elastic and was very convenient to adjust when needed.

  • @DoveGirl
    @DoveGirl 4 місяці тому +2

    ... Black people always had trouble with dress codes... and we still do to this day...

  • @SouthernIndependence
    @SouthernIndependence 4 місяці тому +1

    Our ancestors knew what they were doing. No degeneracy.

  • @fuferito
    @fuferito 4 місяці тому +1

    Since I went to Catholic school in Toronto, Canada in the late 80s and 90s, I have nothing but sighs of nostalgia about how tolerant our school was about short kilts; about big hair for either sex; and, about footwear (provided it was black).
    This dude and his buddy even wore gawdy cowboy boots with brass tips and _actual_ spurs.

  • @annarodriguez9868
    @annarodriguez9868 4 місяці тому +8

    In 1962 I was in jr high in the 9th grade and skirt hems had to be knee length. We had to kneel on a chair and if the hem didn't touch the seat the homeroom teacher would send us to the home ec sewing class to let the teacher take down the hem. She would get a seam ripper and just cut out the thread as we stood on a stool. The rest of the day we would have to walk around school with the hem all unraveled and unironed.
    The guys wear supposed to have their shirt tails tucked in and if they got caught they would have lace ruffles sewn on the shirt tails and wear them all day. A little humiliation goes a loonnng way! 😂

    • @StephanieJeanne
      @StephanieJeanne 4 місяці тому

      😂 Wow!

    • @DanaTheInsane
      @DanaTheInsane 4 місяці тому

      Oh I bet that made for a large number of neurosis and some very interesting fetishes later in life

    • @annarodriguez9868
      @annarodriguez9868 4 місяці тому +8

      @@StephanieJeanne Yeah! We couldn't wear sleeveless dresses, of course nothing low cut, if we broke the rule we had to wear our p.e shirt over the dresses. If we wore sandals or had heels higher than 3 inches we had to wear our ugly old p.e shoes!
      Oh, and no tight skirts or we had a trip to the sewing class and the teacher would let out the seams.
      Anyway, very few of us broke the rules especially after we saw what happened to somebody else. 😆
      It wasn't as horrible as it sounds, but as strict as seems today there was actually less rebellion and more respect for the adults in our lives.

    • @StephanieJeanne
      @StephanieJeanne 4 місяці тому +3

      @@annarodriguez9868 😄 Yes, even from the '60s and '70s it seemed like there was more respect in schools

    • @allanmcelroy9840
      @allanmcelroy9840 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@annarodriguez9868respect is still earned, not just blindly given. Sounds like shaming was sadly rather effective

  • @Kennybooy9
    @Kennybooy9 4 місяці тому

    My college rules were : salute every teacher / master. Wear a cap when out of college grounds, teachers/ masters called Sir, stand attention then easy at daily assembly, school uniform including tie at full mast every day. No girls allowed on school grounds. College prayer must be learnt, college history must be learnt. Silence in corridors . No speaking. I look back. Amazing.

  • @BronnyJames2025MVP
    @BronnyJames2025MVP 4 місяці тому +64

    Sounds authoritarian to me.

    • @kaiserklausmouse
      @kaiserklausmouse 4 місяці тому +5

      Darn right. Too bad everything went in the gutter in the 60s and 70s

    • @t-rizzy208
      @t-rizzy208 4 місяці тому +22

      ​@@kaiserklausmousenah freedom is better than whatever tf this is

    • @msjkramey
      @msjkramey 4 місяці тому +5

      ​@kaiserklausmouse you're pro authoritarianism?

    • @randomdudewholikesmusic1640
      @randomdudewholikesmusic1640 4 місяці тому +6

      ​@@kaiserklausmouse Then make a time machine and go back, Wise Guy.

    • @shuntaewarren342
      @shuntaewarren342 4 місяці тому +6

      ​@t-rizzy208 Just keep living You'll understand how to much freedom isn't that great. You have to have rules, structures, morals, values, principles and fear.

  • @kellyshomemadekitchen
    @kellyshomemadekitchen 3 місяці тому

    My Dad graduated high school in 1957 and all boys had to wear a white button up shirt and black dress pants. The buzz cut for their hair was required. Girls had to wear skirts 3 inches below the knee, no makeup or nail polish except clear. I’ll never forget how shocked my Dad was one morning when I came down for school wearing Levis with holes in the knees. 😂

  • @Alaskan-Armadillo
    @Alaskan-Armadillo 4 місяці тому +3

    It's weird watching your videos because while I like them you see a strong disconnect in the audience where some people view them as a means to learn about history while others wish that they were still there.

    • @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
      @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker  4 місяці тому +1

      That is a true statement. I notice it as well.
      David Hoffman filmmaker

  • @VanityDivined
    @VanityDivined 4 місяці тому +3

    “I had a Catholic gf and she would…”
    I expected a different kind of story 😂

  • @blessyourheart1167
    @blessyourheart1167 4 місяці тому

    Elementary school we had a playground.( obviously most schools did this was in the mid 70’s )They had 1 side for boys and 1side for girls… a huge Bright Yellow line that was the entire length of the playground. Then when I get to high school in the early 80’s 9th grade and up we could dress pretty much any way we wanted. We had a smoking area for students. Most guys had hair as long as me if not longer . It most definitely was a wild time when I look back . I did not smoke ( still don’t ) but I would go out on our lunch and set with some friends occasionally. I really did enjoy those days .

  • @aliciashanks5239
    @aliciashanks5239 4 місяці тому +15

    The one about girls must have a certain length hair is wild!

  • @NeighborhoodOfBlue
    @NeighborhoodOfBlue 4 місяці тому +33

    Authoritarian conditioning, pure and simple.

    • @AWBepi
      @AWBepi 4 місяці тому +7

      I'm guessing you don't have children.

    • @kayosgarden
      @kayosgarden 4 місяці тому +4

      as a parent: it's authoritarian conditioning, pure and simple. @@AWBepi

    • @MyKeeP81
      @MyKeeP81 4 місяці тому +3

      @@kayosgarden absolutely

  • @KealohaHarrison
    @KealohaHarrison 4 місяці тому +1

    Back in the mid 60s my dad moved from LA to a small town in Georgia and he grew his hair out over the summer before senior year. On his first day at the new school the principal told him he had to get his hair cut because as the principal put it, “no boy’s gonna have hair that long in my school.” It wasn’t even that long, Dad told me it was a fairly short Beatle cut. Either way he ignored what the principal said and kept it long only to be called into the office that Friday. Then the principal drove my dad to the nearest barber in town, paid for and forced him to get a “regular” haircut, and drove him back to school. My dad was so livid he almost dropped out but his grandparents (who he was staying with at the time) talked him out of it.

  • @MyKeeP81
    @MyKeeP81 4 місяці тому +4

    we lived in the stone ages until very recently in history. its truly insane

  • @xefirah8753
    @xefirah8753 4 місяці тому

    We rolled up the waistband on our skirt!

  • @bethhayes1
    @bethhayes1 4 місяці тому

    Hard to imagine!

  • @bobsit1945
    @bobsit1945 4 місяці тому

    Methodist here and went to a public school when I was growing up in the fifties and early sixties, and I honestly don't remember dress rules for either sex.
    But I lived right around the corner from a Catholic School and my mother had gotten to know a couple of the Nuns, and they were strict.

  • @binks9624
    @binks9624 4 місяці тому

    I went to a private babtist Christian k through 12 school and they were really strict on dress codes. Then it got shut down because they couldn’t get enough people to attend and I went to a school that let me dress the way I wanted to and I felt a happiness that I had never known until that point.

  • @Aaron-zh4kj
    @Aaron-zh4kj 4 місяці тому +2

    It wasn't a catholic school but I went to a Christian school with mostly the same rules. I actually didn't mind it so much. What I did was (along with our uniform) I chose to wear a black studded belt, high top converse, and create this crazy spiked, Mohawk (not quite a real mohawk) hybrid thing that all passed dress code. I learned later that the principle hated it but could hardly say a thing about. 😂

  • @TheLegPumpkin
    @TheLegPumpkin 4 місяці тому

    My Catholic school uniform had the worst school colors, Brown and Yellow! This was in the early 90s and I had to take a bus home through a very bad neighborhood looking like a toilet puked on me.

  • @queenratv115
    @queenratv115 4 місяці тому

    I remember these days

  • @dmman33
    @dmman33 4 місяці тому +32

    So much arbitrary nonsense!

    • @maryschade1906
      @maryschade1906 4 місяці тому +7

      Rather below the knee than the garbage kids wear to school today.

    • @Sashaiordanov
      @Sashaiordanov 4 місяці тому +11

      ​@@maryschade1906 people wear full sweatsuits to school what are you talking about

    • @harrylongabaugh7402
      @harrylongabaugh7402 4 місяці тому +5

      ​@@Sashaiordanovyeah, they wear sweat suits. People used to actually care about their appearance.

    • @Sashaiordanov
      @Sashaiordanov 4 місяці тому +12

      @@harrylongabaugh7402 I would disagree. People would only care because they would be punished if they didn't

    • @sashafarber617
      @sashafarber617 4 місяці тому

      ​@@Sashaiordanovit's more than just that. The majority of people in the past were far more considerate about their appearance. Today it's the exact opposite. The problem is that people don't care how vulgar, how inappropriate or how improper their appearances are. It's all about how tHeY fEeL, it is incredibly self-centered, obnoxious and inconsiderate of others. Not only does this attitude extend to their attire but it severely affects the way they speak to others.

  • @Faithandseekerofchrist
    @Faithandseekerofchrist 4 місяці тому

    I always had hairy legs even when I was a kid more than the other kids and I was diagnosed recently with PCOS.... It would have been a nightmare for me to wear skirts back then. In middle school I started shaving after I was made fun of for having hairy legs. So I never wore skirts or dresses again unless they were shaved. I am on medications that reduces my hairiness but if I do wear skirts or dresses I either wear stockings with it or shave. I'm sure back then in the 1950s, the girls and teenagers in high school were able to shave. But I can't imagine it was a constant battle because it was a constant battle! Even though shavings hard still it's not as bad as it used to be.

  • @rowdybliss
    @rowdybliss 4 місяці тому +1

    Not school, but work: when I was a kid in the 80s, I worked somewhere where men’s hair was not allowed to be long enough to touch the collar of their work-issue polo shirts. Only women could have their ears pierced, and only once in each ear. No sideburns for men. Honestly… I hate these kinds of rules, but I understand why they did it. They wanted to present an image.

  • @cdubz265
    @cdubz265 3 місяці тому

    My Mom grew up in the 50’s and was kicked out of an all girls high school because her once long hair that she had, she cut it due to the trend coming about (Lucy Ricardo look from I ❤ Lucy) and she also dyed it red, she also saved up money working part time at IJ Foxx on the weekends and bought a leather jacket, they deemed her too eccentric for the girls school so she had to transfer to the local coed neighborhood school.

  • @quiltqueen4318
    @quiltqueen4318 4 місяці тому +1

    Please bring back decency 😤

  • @rosemarietolentino3218
    @rosemarietolentino3218 4 місяці тому

    Yes this brings back memories.

  • @ars6187
    @ars6187 4 місяці тому +1

    My mom, 84, went to Catholic schools all her life in Jersey. If any doubt in skirt length, the girls had to kneel on the floor. If their hems didn’t touch the floor they had to change their skirts.

  • @MicahScottPnD
    @MicahScottPnD 4 місяці тому

    The perfect foil, now that's hilarious! ❤😂☺️

  • @chelscara
    @chelscara 4 місяці тому

    I had a school in 2010 that had a too short AND too long skirt rule. All my skirts went to my ankles so i needed new ones 🙃Because ya know, arbitrary rules for no reason are super helpful and definitely not a conformity tactic.

  • @genericamerican7574
    @genericamerican7574 4 місяці тому

    My mom told me about having to get on her knees every morning with all the other girls in school for hemline checks when she went to school in San Diego. If the hems didn’t hang on the floor you were in trouble.👗💃

  • @hbailey1180
    @hbailey1180 4 місяці тому +10

    NO SIDEBURNS! CUT YOUR HAIR HIPPIE!

  • @ashleypaul6326
    @ashleypaul6326 2 місяці тому

    I’m 37. In middle school the female principal would measure the width of our tank top straps. A girl was sent home bc of it and even the parents were outraged. Leave girls alone

  • @user-fm7pq3ur6c
    @user-fm7pq3ur6c 4 місяці тому

    Good ol days

  • @elbertsorrell8394
    @elbertsorrell8394 4 місяці тому +1

    I don't think it would hurt to go back to some of these. I'm not for the Catholic school rules, though!

  • @ClaytonJosephMigl
    @ClaytonJosephMigl 4 місяці тому

    Yes, they absolutely did.

  • @kevinhaggerty3007
    @kevinhaggerty3007 4 місяці тому

    Short hair for men until the Beatles came along

  • @HH-gd2cb
    @HH-gd2cb 4 місяці тому

    At my grade school
    Immaculate Conception
    The teacher,a nun, would have the girls kneel. This was during class. If the hemline, while the girls were on their knees, did not touch the floor, the skirt was too short. Conversely, if the hemline was on the floor while the girl was keeling
    All was well, and you were a good girl.

  • @StephanieJeanne
    @StephanieJeanne 4 місяці тому +1

    Seems so silly. I went to Catholic school. We had uniforms, and still, the hem couldn't go higher than our fingertips with our arms at our sides. Boys had to wear white collared shirts and black or gray slacks. They didn't force girls to have long hair though, and the boys could have hair touching their collars. It was the late '60s and early '70s though, and it was grade school.
    I don't remember a specific dress code in junior high and high school. Within decency bounds, it was pretty much anything goes.
    Thanks, David!😊❤

    • @msjkramey
      @msjkramey 4 місяці тому +2

      I graduated high school and the early 2010s and I was "dress coded" so much for my skirt barely not reaching my fingertips or at the suggestion of cleavage. Being a larger chested person, I could get away with a lot less than smaller chested girls did

    • @allanmcelroy9840
      @allanmcelroy9840 4 місяці тому

      ​@@msjkrameythey just want reason to complain

  • @maryeerickson-fl1jp
    @maryeerickson-fl1jp 3 місяці тому

    I went to Catholic school for 12 years, and yes they really did this.😂

  • @GS-zc4sk
    @GS-zc4sk 3 місяці тому

    Bring back The Rules, please.

  • @arthurmurfitt7698
    @arthurmurfitt7698 4 місяці тому

    Humans and their ever changing standards of decorum and fashion 🤔

  • @max_e_maxxy_
    @max_e_maxxy_ 4 місяці тому +2

    The lady in the hairstyle portion- is that supposed to be a high school student or is it her grandmother? 😅

  • @TheOfficialTarynTots
    @TheOfficialTarynTots 4 місяці тому

    Shirts or shorts couldn't be shorter than where you fingertips are when you are standing with your arm to the side when I went to school. They also stopped caring if anyone wore PJ pants to school and about 90% of all girls did when I was in HS in the late late 90s/early 2000s.

  • @paulasmall5113
    @paulasmall5113 4 місяці тому

    We would just roll our skirts at the waist in highschool. Elementary you just let below the knee be ok

  • @Fressica_Rabbit
    @Fressica_Rabbit 4 місяці тому

    Poor Shay 😢 I hope they hold those doctors accountable

  • @themoongateofficial
    @themoongateofficial 4 місяці тому

    Long hair men rise💪🏿

  • @leslieschott754
    @leslieschott754 4 місяці тому

    This apparently was only in Catholic schools? We never went through any kind of dress rules even through high school. Of course, we were much more modest then, unlike today’s young people who definitely need guidance (as well as some of the parents, especially the MOTHERS)!!!!!!!!!😮

  • @billfeld5883
    @billfeld5883 4 місяці тому

    Fun times of my youth!!!!
    😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @ThingsILove2266
    @ThingsILove2266 4 місяці тому +4

    In Catholic schools they still do measure how long the pants and skirts are, unless you are male.
    A girl can show 1” of ankle and be sent to the office but a boy who has what looks like capris is never questioned.

  • @autumnrain7489
    @autumnrain7489 4 місяці тому

    my teachers measures our dresses! i live in panama…

  • @Itsdasummer32
    @Itsdasummer32 4 місяці тому

    I was in Cameroon and the uniforms had to have skirts above the knee

  • @Emppu_T.
    @Emppu_T. 3 місяці тому

    I think the, at least part of, purpose of there rules is to create a sense of order.

  • @annalisavajda252
    @annalisavajda252 4 місяці тому

    Well sure in some countries women need to be completely covered including their hair so knee length skirt would seem scandalous in the middle east even now. I had short hair briefly at age 11 but hated it and grew it out my brother's had long hair at times too that was appropriate in the 80s though so who cares about the 50s kids have had shaved heads and dyed it all colours since I wore jeans and plaid like the boys in the 90s my mother and boyfriend would both complain I was pretty and should wear more skirts etc. teens should only be judged on their grades and behaviour at school not hounded about their style fashion is dictated by popular bands and pop culture at that age.

  • @lindachennault7222
    @lindachennault7222 4 місяці тому

    Yes, they did. I was in grade school at that time.

  • @esm1817
    @esm1817 4 місяці тому

    I don't really know about the rules. I've heard that some schools don't have any dress code rules and that without them people do just fine. My school had rules though.

  • @johnstickles6789
    @johnstickles6789 4 місяці тому

    Having long hair got me into trouble more than once. Like long hair made you dumber than the average student

  • @raymondraptorclaw2901
    @raymondraptorclaw2901 4 місяці тому +1

    Boy am I glad to have attended highschool in the height of 2010s meme culture… the people I hear in some videos from old school times sound so uncultured and pretentious, it makes my milk curdle.

  • @shane12534
    @shane12534 3 місяці тому

    See everyone was normal back

  • @Brotherken1234
    @Brotherken1234 3 місяці тому

    Mr Hoffman, let's say there were young men who wore their hair several inches below the collar in 1959. What would people think?

    • @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
      @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker  3 місяці тому

      Back then, there weren't any that I remember who were the hair several inches below. And when we started to see them, they all had girlfriends so a lot of us grew our hair longer as well.
      David Hoffman Schumaker

  • @rgnold2517
    @rgnold2517 4 місяці тому

    Rules are good, imagine driving roadways without rules. Since lots of people are taking liberties we can easily see how the public is in more and more danger from those who will not follow the rules. Rules help people to have a better environment.

  • @bsb1975
    @bsb1975 4 місяці тому

    Funny how early Boomers inflicted those same rules on Gen X, although to a lesser extent. Football coaches still had issues with boys having long hair, but there were no official rules against it. The skirt length thing was still around, and boys weren't allowed to wear shorts to school until around 1988.

  • @DTD110865
    @DTD110865 4 місяці тому

    Right now, I'm imagining a typical 1950's school's reaction to women with flip hairdos, Farrah Fawcett hairdos, shag hairdos, and either gender with a mohawk.
    Oh, wait. I don't have to figure out their reaction to flips. It was already portrayed in "Hairspray" in 1988.

  • @Luckymillion96
    @Luckymillion96 4 місяці тому

    No splits!

  • @user-qy2wf2lt6v
    @user-qy2wf2lt6v 3 місяці тому

    Why did the sutdents cared so much, to roll their scirts with a pin?

  • @shaydowsith348
    @shaydowsith348 4 місяці тому

    Orthodox Jewish schools same. Uniform, and below knee for girls, white shirt and dark pants no jeans for boys.hair for boys short, except for peyos optional.

  • @eurasia6258
    @eurasia6258 4 місяці тому

    It's worthy to be grateful for talking hominids to wear on garments as they meet with unknown other hominids ☮️©️❤️🌹

  • @user-wh2oy2ul1q
    @user-wh2oy2ul1q 4 місяці тому

    I'm living in japan whole my life, and I was in high school during 2016-2018. The school really did the exact same thing, people kneel on floor, they checked hemline under their knees. In 2018!! Is it somewhat related to this Catholic school tradition? Idk, interesting, and how dare they doing this 1950 school rules in 21 century. I want to show this video to those teachers lol

  • @virgiljericho664
    @virgiljericho664 3 місяці тому

    Wait why Pin them up to go into school?
    Was too long not allowed?

  • @Trendkill213
    @Trendkill213 4 місяці тому +1

    Pretty square🔲🤓😂

  • @kayosgarden
    @kayosgarden 4 місяці тому

    enogh of us parents and the kids got cranky about the dress code at my daughter's high school that we managed to get it changed last year. now they have to wear actual clothes, not just underwear, but that's about it. also, no clothes with profanity or swastikas and the like. strict dress codes are just stupid and always have been.

  • @CanesCurrantes
    @CanesCurrantes 4 місяці тому

    More than now, anyway.

  • @avres13
    @avres13 4 місяці тому +1

    They should bring this back

  • @ladybirdlee3058
    @ladybirdlee3058 4 місяці тому +7

    We need some of these rules back.

  • @jupiterdeluna6519
    @jupiterdeluna6519 4 місяці тому

    He dated a rebel

  • @Healingwithflo
    @Healingwithflo 4 місяці тому

    Not gonna lie I kinda like these rules though 😂 the kids today are out of control

  • @TonyPIRANIO
    @TonyPIRANIO 4 місяці тому

    We are such a sad generation as gen z that we have to make fun of babyboomer to make ourselves feel better come on guys we still suck