Dress Codes.

Not many high schools and colleges had school uniforms in the 1960s, but most had dress codes. For a good portion of the 1960s young women were not allowed to wear pants of any kind to class, and young men were forbidden to wear blue jeans. Students were expected to maintain a neat appearance, and until the second half of the decade they generally complied without much complaint.

Young Women.

Many young women in the early 1960s wore skirt/blouse/sweater combinations, and clothes by such manufacturers as Villager, McMullen, and John Meyer of Norwich were the most sought after. Wool A-line skirts that fell about midknee, usually in muted heather colors, and flesh-colored stockings went with Bass Wee-juns. Cotton blouses, often with a button-down or Bermuda collar, had long or elbow length sleeves. They could be either in...