Bruce and Stephanie Geddes, who were a part of the first graduating class of UTSC and are currently a part of the UTSC Alumni Association, here discuss the fashion trends they saw on campus in the mid-1960s.
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[Bruce:] I was looking at this this morning. There’s pictures of guys wearing suits, ties, and shirts, white shirts, to school. I don’t know why but they were.
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[Stephanie:] You wouldn’t be seen dead in jeans. No one wore jeans in those days. In fact, when I graduated, the women, the women students they wore skirts because that was before pants suits came in. I remember when I first started teaching, I was at a school in 1970. No, 1971, I guess it was. And the principal stood up and pantsuits were just coming into vogue and he said,
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“You women teachers may not wear pants in school. It’s not professional.” So this was after we had graduated, so you can imagine before you graduated, we pretty well always wore skirts and dresses. So that was a big thing and it was cold in the winter because that was before pantyhose, so you used to have, you know the top of your legs would be all exposed in the winter. So sometimes we would put pants underneath and then as soon as we got to school
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we’d take the pants off because you couldn’t have pants in school. So that was very different.
