Takes me back to when my sweet little one was in dance for a year. No droopy tights, just cute and huggable in that little outfit. Sure went by too fast…
I remember those baggy things. Only they weren’t dance tights. Just your regular waist to toes tights that gave you baggy ankles, baggy knees and one size fits all is a lie!
In the first grade (1956) I had several pairs of these awful binding, itchy things, one pair was black. A boy in my class would call them my “n****r legs”. I had no idea it meant anything. I got called into the office and notes sent home several times that year, and I never knew why. Nobody ever actually came out and told me what I was doing wrong. My father would just laugh and throw the notes away, It wasn’t until years later that I found out it was considered a derogatory term for “people of color”, of whom I had only seen two (twins, actually) in that first school, sixth graders, “big kids”, in any of the small-town California mountain schools I attended until high school.
Aaberon over 12 years ago
Takes me back to when my sweet little one was in dance for a year. No droopy tights, just cute and huggable in that little outfit. Sure went by too fast…
rshive over 12 years ago
An especially bad fit in the foot part.
Hunter7 over 12 years ago
I remember those baggy things. Only they weren’t dance tights. Just your regular waist to toes tights that gave you baggy ankles, baggy knees and one size fits all is a lie!
sottwell over 12 years ago
In the first grade (1956) I had several pairs of these awful binding, itchy things, one pair was black. A boy in my class would call them my “n****r legs”. I had no idea it meant anything. I got called into the office and notes sent home several times that year, and I never knew why. Nobody ever actually came out and told me what I was doing wrong. My father would just laugh and throw the notes away, It wasn’t until years later that I found out it was considered a derogatory term for “people of color”, of whom I had only seen two (twins, actually) in that first school, sixth graders, “big kids”, in any of the small-town California mountain schools I attended until high school.
J Short over 12 years ago
Slacks.
smalltownbrown over 12 years ago
slack tights – oxymoron