in the 70s, Clothes of the Seventies

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Comments left:	When my best friend Patti wore her first shellsuit to school, she showed me how I could love being in the suits just like she did. First, she told me that they were bright, colorful, and shiny, and the jacket came with a pair of matching pants. And their would be many times, we could just come to school in our shellsuits and not having to worry about wearing a jacket, since we were in a two piece outfit. We wouldn't have to wear raincoats. I admitted to her that I hated raincoats and I'd much rather be in a shellsuit. And I admitted that they were actually comfortable to wear and they kept me warm but weren't hot like sweatpants. I asked Patti why was the swishy sound her favorite part of being in a shellsuit. She explained that when she tried her suit on in the Wal-Mart dressing room, she noticed something neat about her suit. The minute she put her outfit on and started to walk around the dressing room, the swishy sound started to follow her. She stopped walking and the swishy sound stopped. Then when she started to walk around again, her pants started to swish again. It dawned on her that as along as she was in the shellsuit, she was in control of how much she would swish around during the day. Anytime she would do any movement, she'd swish around. But, if she was standing still or took a seat, she would not be making the swishing sound until she got up again. During our break we got to go outside and we walked around and listened to ourselves swish around together. Patti asked me if I was starting to like being in the suit better, and I admit that I was enjoying it. I asked her if she liked wearing the turtlenecks or tee shirts better with. And she liked the turtlenecks because she loved turtlenecks and had always wanted find an outfit that she could wear them with. The shellsuits were prefect and actually felt like she had found the prefect thing to wear turtlenecks with. So, she decided that from then on, anytime she wore a turtleneck, she'd be wearing a shellsuit with it. We decided to have a matching shellsuit day every Friday, on our birthdays, and on days we went on field trips. After we wore our shellsuits all year, we were excited when our parents would talk about when we would be start wearing our suits full time to school. We wanted to wear our suit more often, so we started to wear shellsuit Capri pants with a sleeveless polo shirt or tee shirt. When we got in junior high and high school, we still loved wearing our suits and told our parents that we wanted to be kept in. One time during the warmer weather it rained we both went to school in a navy shellsuit and a pinkish orange sleeveless polo shirt. Since it was warmer, we hung our jackets up and walked around in our pants and polo shirts. One time we asked our friend Gail to start wearing shellsuits with us, since she was in shellsuit pants everyday. Gail was agreeable to it and we all decided to go shopping and pick out some outfits that we could wear to together. We picked out a Tommy Hilfiger red suit, maroon suit, a bright purple suit, black and pink suit, a pale orange shellsuit, and a royal blue and white U of K shellsuit. We bought some turtlenecks and some soild color tee shirts to wear with them. We all wore our red Tommy Hilfiger shellsuits with red long sleeve tee shirts with the Tommy Hilfiger logo. We all decided to hang our jackets up and spend the day in our red pants and red shirts. We all went into the locker room to see what we all looked like dressed alike. But, go locked in there. Since we it was a day we had health, we had to stay in there all day. But, Patti came up with an idea for us to play Swishy says and give command to the other. Gail went first and commanded us to run in place, but she didn't say swishy says. So, Patti and I had to walk around the lockeroom and say "Swishy,swishy, swishy," non stop in squeaky voices. She told us that she'd be keeping an eye on her watch and she'd tell us when an half hour had passed. Until then Patti and I had to walk around and listen to ourselves swish around and only say "swishy,swishy, swishy, swishy," non stop. We weren't able to communicate with each or Gail. But, it turns out that Gail thought it was funny seeing me and Patti swishying around and speaking in squeaky voices so she went over a half an hour and we had to do it for two hours. After she said time was up, we decided to get in our lockers get changed into our swimsuits. I changed into a pink swimsuit, Gail changed into a navy swimsuit, and Patti changed into a leopard print swimsuit. We turned the showers on and ran under the showers and splashed each other.
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