Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Com au are!!! M. -,4b.,' k-Q-gi Wearing a jacket with a mid-calf length skirt, junior Suzanne Alwein completes the look with boots from the Go- Round. Suzanne's major complaint was that people wouldn't dare to be differ- ent. Everyone looked like carbon copies of each other. Wearing a tuxedo outfit, a ruffled but- tondown shirt, velvet vest and tux pants complete with a satin stripe down the side, Sophomore Nancy Deal laughs during her conversation with Mike Cul- len, sophomore. Nancy described it as being one of my favorite outfits. 40 fashion clthulfna XX 3' 1 5 .1 J Displaying his Rush- Tour of the Hem sphere's concert t-shirt, Lance Ni sophomore, commented, Nl made th one myself. I just painted the design 0 with a paint brush. He added, I like, shirts because they're more comfortab' than anything else. l

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Valking and talking, Freshmen Craig tiller and Mark McGovern head home fter school. According to Craig, Rid- 1g the bus is just a hassle, and walking ome only takes 5 or 10 minutes. vorking on weekends and dur- ng the summer. I picked out a fuck because I have to haul lum- Lelr. You can't do that in a Volk- agen. I Senior Leigh Whelan, explain- g how she got her 1974 Delta 8 convertible, said, It was bout five days until my 16th iirthday when my mom and I aw this car. She had always vanted one when she was oung, so she really wanted me 3 have this one. I didn't know vhat to think. I had never even ireamed of having a convertible, specially a huge black one. tbout five hours later, it was in Iur garage, and it was mine. Students who rode the bus Iften missed the convenience of ieing able to leave school when- ver they wanted. Senior Meg Iealy remarked, l'm usually the It will said Linda. Students walking were particu- larly preoccupied with dodging cars, not stepping in mud and hoping that it wouIdn't rain. Mike Warthan, who walks to school, said, It makes you want to sleep in your first class. It makes you tired. I mean getting up, rolling out of bed and walk- ing is not my idea of the best way to start a day. Sitting on a Chevrolet Blazer, Senior Kenny Cloniger enjoys a talk with Laurie Robertson, senior. inly senior on the bus. In the worning it's almost always late. Ay french horn doesn't fit down he aisle either. When you're 6 and your friends are 16, then ou start getting rides to school. wfipwwea'-.mm.'v:t,fif Q I I ,gm-'2. . on the back, Sophomore Rob- Honda XL-350. However, according to gets a ride home from joe, when it rains, he has to get a ride Woodward, sophomore, on his too. le iii' EIL te sess xx -...Y ,J . V 1 Sitting in his new car, Senior Craig james, along with Greg Koch, senior, treats himself to a lack-in-the-Box snack. Lots of people are saying South- ern Methodist University fCraig's col- lege choicej bought it for me, but they didn't, remarked Craig. cars 39 in

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Some pay for them by hard cash, oth- 5 by checks or store credit cards and ll others buy them with Visa or Master large. Most people grumble about the st, but no matter what, clothes have be bought. The variety of clothes to choose from is immense. Girls could wear designer ans, wool skirts and velvet blazers, d boys could choose from t-shirts or lour sweaters. Perhaps the most significant fashion acovery for girls was straight-legged signer jeans. These were jeans made such names as Calvin Klein, Sassoon, ine Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt. Boys fashion, too, changed. As junior jke Myers said, Styles have changed. st year you wouldn't see a guy dare to ear a shirt with a hood and pockets in 2 front. Now anybody wears pretty ich what they want, within reason. iys are a lot more limited in what they wear, though. Like when girls go pping they can buy just whatever ks cute. They say that they've 'just t to have it.' Girls can throw a lot of ff together, guys just have shirts and ts. enior Cheri Edwards explains, What ear in school is different from what l ar when I go out. In school l like to ar what is comfortable, but I don't , to dress sloppy, except maybe for ays. , ost girls agreed that velour shirts, ight-legged designer jeans, Candie's es, rabbit fur coats, skirt and blazer ts, boots, and spike-heel shoes-were 2 most fashionable things to wear. ys, on the other hand, indicated that they really needed were jeans, tennis les or boots and t-shirts. slevertheless, Cheri echoed the lughts of many students when she Zlaimed, lt's like a fashion show netimes. Lots of girls really overdress school. flo matter what kind of clothes were tight, someone had to pay for them. s burden either fell on the student's 'ents or the students themselves. jun- Karen Hyde shrugged her shoulders she said, Visa. I pay for my clothes h my parent's Visa card. For other dents buying was more complicated. ny had to work part-time at local t-food joints, grocery stores, or aartment stores to pay for their thes. lhe places students bought their lhes were as different as the styles inga five dollar bill out of her jacket ket for change, junior Leslie Haga- n commented later, Getting ssed up is fun. It makes me feel d. l get tired of wearing just jeans. two-piece suit was bought by Leslie money from her allowance. they wore. The majority of students pur- chased their clothes at Foleys, Palais Royal, loskes and other department stores. Many shopped at the smaller boutique-style shops in Memorial City Mall. Still, there were some that prefer- red to travel to the Galleria in hopes of finding something different. 'TX No matter what, or when, how, or why, the styles, in the end, were as uni- que as the people in them. 4-.v rn., 41. Attired in a velour sweater and like-col- mother picks out a lot of his clothes for ored corduroy jeans, junior Mike him, he adds that he usually likes what Emberg watches a fellow art student she gets. create a design. Explaining that his fashion 41