Back in the late fifties, when I was in the seventh and eighth grades, all the girls would wear very full skirts and lots of petticoats…or crinolines. The heavy petticoats had to be held up with a tight stretchy belt. The skirts were so full that only one girl could get through the door at one time.
Two weeks before Christmas, all the girls would use safety pins to pin jingle bells to their many petticoats. If you didn’t have bells on your petticoats, there was always someone who had extra bells and pins to share with you.
When the class bell would ring, you couldn’t hear anything in the hallways…except bells. The teachers had to use whistles and blow very loudly if someone was misbehaving. I know the teachers were relieved when Christmas was over.
Lillie Cook
Lillie Cook, born and raised in Wharton County and the younger of two children. She is mother to five children, grandmother to seven, and great grandmother to five—four living. Her time is spent being caregiver for her husband.
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