“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!”
― Gloria Steinem
In the 60s, you couldn’t go to the restroom without the risk of developing lung cancer. Girls were required to wear dresses, and counselors used rulers to make sure the hems came within three inches of our knees, and boys would be sent home if their hair touched their collars.
This restrictive dress code really didn’t do much to protect our morality in the school boards attempt to keep our high school a wholesome place. In 1969, our local school in Towanda, PA, under pressure from the parents (women’s movement) and students adopted a new dress code – “the times were a-changing.”
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