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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting thread, though some of the memories of frugality are really about the '70s more than SES.  I grew up in an affluent suburb of San Francisco in the '70s and my sisters and I all patched our jeans, made skirts out of jeans, and wore cut-offs.  We were doctors' daughters and traveled to Europe in the summer, but the '70s were about not looking and acting like you were a rich girl.  Think Patty Hearst; think Hall and Oates' "You're a Rich Girl".  The sartorial tip-off that you had money was owning a pair of Frye boots.  When I came east to go to college, my roommate, a college professor's daughter from the midwest, saw my boots and told everybody I was a debutante.          [/quote]

I remember doing some of these things, this pseudo-hippie bohemian look.  Painting jeans, making skirts--these leather sheepsking type coats with embroidery.  They were from Afghanistan, pre-Russian invasion.  I grew up with money (in Europe, we went to US and Asia for vacations, haha), but much else was same as this PP, down to being 'recognized' by the boots or shoes.  Interesting.[/quote]

My sister did a semester in Spain and came home with a coat like the one you describe.  Looked fab with the Frye boots. :)[/quote]

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