Saturday, May 14, 2011
I’ll bet Dick played sax in the marching band. See the “1961” on the cuff? Note also: These were the days of pegged pants and turned up collars.
The tradition actually started in Bloomington, Indiana at Indiana University in 1912. From there it spread to Purdue and finally trickled down to mostly small High Schools in southern Indiana.
We’d decorated the cords with the names of our fellow classmates; teachers; and sports teams. Most would include at least a bit of sexual innuendo, as well as caricatures of teachers; images of our cars; names and images of sports mascots, etc. etc. Almost nothing was considered off limits. (Mine had a bright red Devil on the fly under which was printed “Hot Stuff.” I wasn’t, of course, but I thought I was.)
