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[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]

This. We ate Hamburger Helper, my mom made many of my clothes, cut-offs and cut-off skirts we're a fun project, patches all over the jeans, home haircuts for everyone, scotch tape and rubber bands on eyeglasses and my parent sent 2 girls through Sidwell and 2 boys through St. Albans. Try doing that now--it can't be done. Period.[/quote]

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