Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for December 09, 2012

PEDAL pushers (short enough so you wouldn’t catch your pant legs in the chair of your bike)

I remember garter belts and stockings. I have blessed the inventor of panty hose since the day I chucked the last garter belt. It’s been decades since I had the marks of those things impressed into my thighs.

clam diggers…

I hate to age myself, but remember when flip-flops were just for summer and the beach and not normal “shoe” gear? What goes around, comes around, except gas prices!

Oh yeah! Garter belts and thigh high stockings are great on some women!

You guys need a copy editor. It’s “pedal pushers.”

Capri pants and pedal pushers are not quite the same things. Capri pants were introduced in 1948, and made very popular by Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petri on The Dick van Dyke Show. Pedal pushers are similar, but they are sometimes cuffed, while Capris never are. What kept pedal pushers out of bike chains was their close fit moreso than their length.

Ah, the wonderful memories of sitting all day in a hard school chair with the metal clasps of the garter best digging into my flesh.Guys may think they are sexy, but if they had to wear them they would think again!Long live tights and panty hose!

In my day tennies were called sneakers. They weren’t called tennis shoes (tennies) till the 70’s unless you were tennis player.

When I worked for the phone co. many years ago, I worked in the dept. that checked the billings on phone numbers. At that time, many exchanges had 12 party lines. that meant that 12 families shared 1 telephone number, but the rings were different for each family. boy, have times changed.

Jon88: Or when publishers had “first readers”; now they make the authors hire “agents” for that sort of thing and foot the bill..masterkrain: I never saw 27¢ gas – it was 27.9¢!