David Hoffman Has Some Fun With 1950s High School Dress Codes. Did They Work?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

This Is Another Wonderful 1950s Memory - kzbin.info/www/bejne/on3MmXWEgduJjcU David Hoffman Filmmaker

[@ashtondoublet8334]

So in this video of yours I am currently watching you said that returning to the 1950s is not a good thing, I agree with that but to a degree. Yes, you can't turn back the clock and go back to the ways that things were, but you could incorporate small bits of the past with bits of the present. A while ago, I wanted to go back to the 50s even though that I was born in 05, but then I realized that wouldn't happen, mainly when it came to the social barriers. That got me thinking a bit, "What if, we could have the lifestyle of the 50s, but with the modern social and technological advancements of today." The quaint neighborhoods, fancy cars, friendly human interaction are back, but the racist ideology, limited communication, and social restrictions are nearly eliminated. This is what I want to "go back to". Not exactly the 50s, but just enough of the good parts, that make you feel like you are a part of that time.

[@helRAEzzzer]

I wish someone had the teachers from my generation (I'm genY) watch this video about discipline! The demonstration of how NOT to do it was mostly standard practice from 1996 - 2009 (I assume before a bit and after, too).

[@Lucypetuniaggm]

Yes, girls wore dresses. I still remember a freezing cold Winter day in elementary school when one of my (female) classmates committed the sin of arriving at school wearing pants. When they called her Dad to come get her he refused, saying it was too cold to wear a dress. Remember, at the time we were expected to be outside for recess. Wearing a dress at recess was problematic on several levels. Her Dad’s demand that she be allowed to wear pants was a turning point. From then on common sense prevailed. We still wore dresses/skirts, right up through high school graduation, but were allowed to wear pants in cold weather…REALLY cold weather. I haven’t worn a dress in over 20 years, since leaving the corporate work environment. Thank you Megan’s Dad!

[@tula1433]

Aww I wish he could read this ! That one dude standing up for his kid mad a difference and you still remember it all these years later!!

[@marioksoresalhillick299]

based dad

[@rainbowdash_cum_jar]

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing!

[@SewardWriter]

Megan's Dad was a mensch. I salute him As he's probably gone now, may his memory be a blessing.

[@rationallyruby]

Megan’s dad was a hero! Thank you Megan’s dad!

[@denisstarrs944]

Clearly David Hoffman was what we called a "square" in those days. The big problem with teenagers in the 50's was their parents. They had grown up in the depression, lived through the war years and thought we should all look like soldiers and be subject to the same level of discipline.

[@briseboy]

That did not work out well. My father, a drunken military abuser, destroyed his family. My mother , a16 year old postwar bride suffered so. I would get Fs whenever he was home, As when not. Our family is permanently fractured, with the siblings not knowing of the immense psychopathic cruelty i listened to in my bdr next to kitchen. I still call my mother, isolated yet resilient at 90, expressing admiration for her kindness and defense, and her efforts. A complete delinquent with knife fights and gang friends shot up by 9th grade, i walked into a geo.etry/trig class in 10th, encountering a young teacher with a sense of humor over the severe tricks we played. He earned pur admiration, being the best teacher of my schol life. The previous year, caught in an eraser fight, the vice principal atempted to "man" handle me to the office. It worked with my protestations to take his hands off me, until rea hing the top of the staircase, wher i extended my foot,, subsequently observing his gymnastic tumble down. I received a welcome temporary vacation following his performance, which would have scored quite low. Yet in college, released to the natural excitement of learning, i did pbtain summa cum laude grades. Not substantially different from other two-legged animals, i quote Dave Wakeling: the limits are the limits we set. (and bullet bras were obviously designed to signal nipple erection which arouses some hormone production relating to love, pair bonding. Oxytocin production is assocoated in normal individuals with love and intimacy, and, because it is visible, is a social signal. Works for me, easily deceived as i am.

[@DavidEVogel]

You are correct. During WWII dad wore a military uniform. “Uniform” means just that: everyone looks the same. Its logical that the children of military veterans would also comply to a “uniform” look. BTW guys in leather jackets and girls wearing jeans were “rockers.”

[@iShallEatChips]

Mr Hoffman has done some incredible work with all these historic films.

[@garyhunter6030]

We wore what our parents could afford when I was in school. I didn't own a sport coat until I was in college. I bought the sport coat from a used clothing store. I also had to work and pay for my college education.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks David. And thanks for including the entirety of the PSA documentaries.

[@goosedown3158]

Well... based off what's happening in the streets of America today these old-timers may have been on to something!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

On the streets? As I pointed out in my video, on the weekends, girls and boys wore much more freeing clothing. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@goosedown3158]

David Hoffman I definitely believe the 50s had its problems! But what I’m seeing in this video is adults trying to teach children to: 1)Respect for authority 2)Self-respect 3) Shame and modesty (irregardless if I didn’t take) These aspects are sorely missing in our society today and can be linked directly with current unrest taking place within the US. I love your videos BTW!

[@JimmyRussle]

@@goosedown3158 blind respect is about the dumbest thing anyone can do. Authority gets respect when it earns it. Those who abuse their authority don't deserve it.

[@goosedown3158]

@@JimmyRussle With that reply I can totally see why America is in the mess it's in. Respect for others and those in authority are the very minimum you need to have in order to have a functional society.

[@SoulDevoured]

@@goosedown3158 yep. It's a shame authority made enough mistakes to lose that trust. Control is not possible in the age of the internet. And cohesion can backfire. Largely what we are reaping right now is authority attempting to control and manipulate young people and parents through DARE and abstinence only education and all kinds of intended to be helpful tips. Enormous pressure on young people and parents to live in the world as we wish it was - not as it is. Go to college and you'll be set. Go in the military and the country will respect you and take care of you if you're willing to work. Go to the doctor and trust their advice. All of these beliefs and ideas have challenged by reality. And because of the internet we know the reality all too well. It's hard to swallow that you've been lied to. And if you think it sounds like the 60s... I do too. In fact alot of social upheaval all sounds very similar. Authority overstepping and failing is as simple a reason that would ever come.

[@ralphcraig5816]

I went to high school in Georgia in the early 60s. Dress shirt and ties with jacket, except Fridays when guys could wear a sweater. No jeans ever!

[@humblecourageous3919]

In 1963-64 we had to kneel on floor in home room every day. Our skirts had to touch the floor. The next year, they could be 1 inch above the floor. The next year they could be 2 inches above the floor. Shortly after I graduated in 1967 the girls were able to wear pants to school every day. Boy's hair could not touch their ears. The boys were not just sent to the principal's office. They got swats with a big paddle. I was a goody goody. I never missed one day of high school. But then came college and that was a different story.

[@KermdoubleO7]

Again, you are such a good man, I hope all of these comments and the responses are archived in your name for your efforts. I feel the era and I was not even born. : )

[@judithshorey2137]

My Dad would not let us kids wear jeans to school ever! He said that he didn’t want us looking like a bunch of farmers. 😜😜

[@suzannemcpherson9618]

I spent my teenage years in the fifties and it was great,! Mr Hoffman obviously never raised any children or he would understand the need for rules ....we need them in all aspects of life . In the 50’s people cared about honor, integrity and family. Your word meant something, now society admires people for their ability to lie and do whatever makes them feel good and get away with it. A few codes of conduct would go along way these days.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

It's quite simple Suzanne. And by the way, I have raised three children all of whom are successful open minded people. Of course rules are necessary. Otherwise we would have anarchy. But when people make rules that they themselves don't live by those rules fail. They are fake and fraudulent. Parents, school leaders, political leaders, religious leaders, some of them… Have attempted to make rules and state rules they themselves did not live by. That didn't work back then. Especially when we teenagers knew that our parents when they were teenagers, did not live by the rules they were telling us to live by. David Huffman - filmmaker

[@scorpiovegan5887]

I LOVE your channel 💓

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you so much!!

[@Radeo]

"Interest in work for which learners see a purpose, provides its own discipline."

[@wesbittick5468]

I have often wonder why bras back in the fifties were so pointy . Absolutely strange .

[@LisaRichards_123]

Dress codes are to make parents not have to see who their kids really are

[@gls1934]

We use to go naked as often as possible with out going to jail ,and used our clothes to wash our cars which both got our clothes and our cars clean.

[@stevemelancon6207]

She's wearing a K-9 bra. It makes pointers out of setters. 🐕😁

[@flyingbeaver57]

Interesting to see, especially as very little of anything in this film happened during the first 2/3 of my school years (only a few years later than this film). I lived more or less on the edge of a small community. Major oilfields had been discovered nearby a few years earlier, and people from all over were flooding into the area. There was a real shortage of teachers - so much so that Grade 12 students from the only nearby High School were hired to teach half-days (and got extra academic credit). There was a half-hearted attempt to introduce a "dress code" but it didn't work out. Some families could afford special "school clothes" but others could not, and supply was limited in any case. Our teachers were, for the most part, pretty ignorant (i.e. lacking knowledge or ability to reason) and not happy to be there. That is a very bad recipe. The results were predictable: we didn't get much that would be called "education," and the schools were run by cliques of bullies, not by teachers. The teachers, in point of fact, went to great lengths to pretend the situation didn't exist. For a lot of the kids, things weren't much better at home. We had some teachers who were incredibly bad (one was well known as the town drunk, and a kleptomaniac!), and there were parents who blamed the kids for that. The schools eventually got better, for a while, but much of that improvement has been lost because of "feelings over fact" policies. In most places I know in North America, schools have been, and are pretty damn poor. This will not be a good thing for generations to come, I'm afraid.

[@jessenone3708]

I was a child in the 50's, I remember my Dad arguing with my Mom about pedal pushers. my mother wanted to buy some pedal pushers, but my dad was against it. I distinctly remember him saying angrily to my mom "If women start wearing pedal pushers, the next thing you know they will be wearing pants."

[@Lakerbeatmaker]

He wasn't wrong lol

[@damienwilloughby]

🤣

[@The_ZeroLine]

That is hilarious.

[@samsmom1491]

Oh, the HORROR!!! 😊 I started first grade in 1969 in a very small town and many of these rules and dress codes were still enforced. Spanking or paddling by the teacher or the principal was common. Pulling a child's ear or hair was also common.

[@rainbowdash_cum_jar]

@@samsmom1491You sound around my mom’s age! I’m curious if you had any experience with the busing system at that time, if I may ask! I believe my mom lived in an area were they would bus children from urban areas to her school and visa versa, she told me it was horrible and she was bullied awfully. 🥺

[@SPayne-vn5od]

The brassier the girl in the thumbnail is wearing looks like the front bumper on my 1955 Buick Century. Ahh to be young and in love...I'll never forget that car.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I'll never forget those bras. They were sewn into that shape and usually had rows of circular stitching on them to reinforce the design. I wore enough of the things in my day.

[@shaunw9270]

@@miriambucholtz9315 Here in England the girls called them Bullet bras , I've been told .

[@shaunw9270]

Wow , that was a beautiful car ! I'm a guitar nut myself ; one of my Fender Strats is finished in Desert Sand nitrocellulose lacquer, which coincidentally was the same paint Buick offered on their cars around '55 , although I believe they listed it as Desert Tan in their literature.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

@@shaunw9270 We called them that, too.

[@BIGMOUTHLOUIS]

@@miriambucholtz9315 so..the bosom was not actually the same shape as the pointy bra?

[@SkepticCat-pz1zz]

In the late ‘50’s in UK school teachers used a cane to beat you with, when I came to the US I discovered they used a wooden paddle. Punishments I never experienced from my parents! Thankfully I never experienced either but came extremely close, once a teacher accused me of riding my bicycle in the playground, actually all I did was kick my pedal backwards while waiting in line to ride to soccer practice. Nobody ever considers that some teacher are just lousy at their job, some are sociopaths.

[@falko4918]

My elementary school teacher about 60 used to beat our fingers with a liner back 2010

[@falko4918]

@Dela Flowers Germany so actually kinda similar standards towards kids but in a small town

[@foxopossum]

Very true

[@TehutiofNewKmt]

True there are lousy teacher but not cops. Especially in the US

[@Shermanbay]

That wooden paddle was called the "Board of Education."

[@dalegriggs5392]

David. This is interesting. In my small, midwestern town, the dress code was very stringent. The boys were required to wear dress pants and a button down shirt. The girls had to wear dresses or skirts and blouses. This was in the sixties in my high school years. Denim jeans and t-shirts were not allowed. It seemed to us the rest of the country were allowed to wear whatever they wanted! One day, in protest to the dress code, a close friend of mine decided to do his own protest against the status quo. That eventful morning Leslie showed up at school dressed in a white tee shirt, lily white jeans with his head shaved bald. He also had pierced his right ear and had a large gold earring prominently displayed. In his left hip pocket he had a bottle of Mr. Clean to announce his intention. What happened to Leslie for this stunt, which really hurt no one and caused considerable merriment? For his perceived insolence against the city fathers and the school board Leslie was expelled. This was his senior year and not much Hope was proffered him without that high school diploma. Leslie had to make his point though and we admired him for that. In the end things turned out well for Leslie . Our high school principle didn’t agree with the school board about Leslie. As we left school in the afternoon we would see Leslie heading in to the principal’s office where Mr. Tucker spent countless hours helping Leslie complete his requirements for his high school diploma. At our graduation ceremony in 1969, the principle was determined to hand the earned diploma to Leslie. He put him last in line and when the time came he called his name and Leslie received his rightfully earned accreditation. That act caused Mr. Tucker his job. The school board promptly fired him but Mr. Tucker didn’t flinch. He did what was the right thing to do and never regretted it!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

An amazing and very real story. Thank you for sharing it. Mr. Tucker did right for sure. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@dalegriggs5392]

David Hoffman yes, he did. He wasn’t accepted initially in our community because he was of Hispanic heritage. That was one strike against him at the outset. The second strike was he truly loved his students and welcomed us into his home on numerous occasions. Bear in mind the home provided for him was a public housing apartment reserved for the poorest of our town. Mr. Tucker didn’t mind, he was glad to have a roof over his head and for his family. The third strike for Mr. Tucker was the Mr. Clean affair with Leslie. It was very sad as most of the student body was endeared to our Hispanic principal. Also bear in mind Leslie was a brilliant student with an almost perfect record in every subject. His was a mind too valuable to waste and Mr. Tucker knew that so he sacrificed his career to redeem a teenager who might have made a bad choice. Cudos to Mr. Tucker which was probably not his original name but was Americanized to sooth the minds of school boards who would hire him.

[@Aisha-ix6qz]

@@dalegriggs5392 Thanks for sharing Dale! Mr Tucker sounds like he was a truly wonderful and interesting man. Do you know how his life turned out afterwards?

[@dalegriggs5392]

Aisha I really don’t know where Mr. Tucker went after his term as Principle of the school was terminated. He had a three or four year old son and a teenage daughter at the time. His wife had died a couple of years before he came to our school. All I know is he was endeared by the entire student body. He did everything possible to create a stable learning environment for all of us. Please bear in mind I was not a model student during my high school years, doing just enough class work to achieve my diploma. In fact I was forced to take a World History class I didn’t need for credit. I felt they just wanted to fill up my time any way they could. I disliked the teacher who really didn’t have that much knowledge of World History and I don’t remember a single lecture he made the whole semester. As a rebellious teenager not wanting or needing the class I refused to open the World History book. Not once did I open it. For class assignments I put my name at the top of the page and turned it in blank. On test days I answered not one question. At the end of the semester I got a big fat zero, which was what I wanted. Throughout my immature insolence Mr. Tucker seemed to understand my frustration. The thing is the class was scheduled at the last period of the day. All my other classes were during the morning period. If not for that late afternoon class I would have been able to work my job at my father’s plumbing business and earn much needed money. Mr. Tucker was Hispanic and well understood the need to work to survive, even for a snot nosed, teenager. His hands were tied, however and he had to abide by the school requirements. He never criticized me for refusing to perform in the class and in the end it was he who placed my High School Diploma in my hand on graduation night. Consider this: Have you ever heard of a group of students gather at a high school principal’s home after school and on weekends? With Mr. Tucker it was a regular occurrence. He was a most interesting man and taught us many things through that interaction away from the school building. I am forever indebted to him for many of the life lessons he imparted to us during those impromptu encounters at his home.

[@Aisha-ix6qz]

@@dalegriggs5392 Thank you for replying. I am in awe of your wonderfully eloquent ability to storytell. I sincerely hope Mr Tucker had a good life. He was clearly a very admirable man who truly deserved happiness. And I cannot imagine the hardship he must have gone through, with losing his wife and being subjected to prejudice and racism. I think it would be wonderful if we all had mentors like Mr Tucker at some point in our lives to guide us. I am presuming he has since passed so may he rest in peace.

[@jebsmith323]

My mother graduated valedictorian in 1954 in Georgia. She was so poor that she wore the same brown corduroy skirt to skirt every day even after it became smooth. She had one sweater set. She started working at age 14 but had to give all but .10 to her parents every week. She worked at Penny's for four years. Went to school, walked to work, had to pay a neighbor to take her home every night. He molested her, but she never told anyone. I wish you had done documentaries about about these young people.

[@rayunseitig6367]

good point

[@Chazd1949]

A great story, a great mom. I didn't have it that bad, but I knew some kids that did. Those kids learned at an early age what life was all about. They weren't spoiled whiny little brats who had time to complain about petty crap like a dress code. When the guys were drafted or volunteered for military service, they had a dress code, a conduct code, and rigorous training that surpassed anything these complainers have posted here. Sheesh!!!

[@jebsmith323]

@@Chazd1949 In a different generation, my mother would have been a CEO or had her own law office. Brilliant woman who was held back by poverty and expectations. She did one thing that changed her life. She married a man 10 years her senior who was in WWII and Korea. They were married nearly 60 years before he died. A great man from the silent generation. He loved her unflinchingly and gave her the freedom to try whatever she wanted. She became a realtor in her 50s and built financial freedom for the two of them. Pretty amazing lady.

[@Chazd1949]

@@jebsmith323 Pretty amazing indeed. Thanks for sharing that. Though she didn't realize her full potential economically (few of us do for one reason or other), it sounds to me like she made a lasting contribution to our world that far outweighed any dollar value that could be estimated. After I am dead, if I'm to be remembered at all, I don't want it to be for the expensive car I drove (I drive a cheap little Toyota with almost 200k miles on it), or the prestigious neighborhood in which I lived (I live alone in a poor area of town). I want to be remembered for the people I served, for the encouragement I gave, for the moral and ethical example I set, for showing kindness, for generosity, for extending forgiveness to those who have hurt me, and for making restitution to those I have hurt. The world is passing away before our very eyes. How we decide today to live may help in some small way to make life more tolerable for some precious soul tomorrow. God bless.

[@pagethreemodel]

@@jebsmith323 your mum sounds incredible. I'm sorry to hear she was taken advantage of.

[@jack_schiro]

It’s interesting to see how dress codes have changed over the years. I go to a high school in Texas and sometimes it looks like people just roll out of bed and walk to school. Thanks for the quality content as always!

[@lkeke35]

Yeah, I imagine how these peoplewould react to people just walking around in the streets in a pair of slippy flats with pajames, or the sagging jeans thing in my neighborhood. My mom is 70 and remembers owning a pair of saddle shoes, and she absolutely HATES the sagging jeans, while Im a lot less bothered remembering the ripped blouses era of the 80's.

[@qua7771]

In the 80's I would wear a Heineken tee shirt with the sleeves cut off to high school. Sometimes a Budweiser shirt. Now I think it was wrong. Now, you would get sent home for that. It was a different era.

[@qua7771]

@TSC TSC People rarely wear suits now. Weddings, court and funerals, if that.

[@saintsnation6893]

i went to a school in louisiana and we have school uniforms but it seems like the seniors did whatever they wanted. i never wore schooo shirts or belts and we weren’t allowed to wear hoodies but all this seniors dud

[@leonardodalongisland]

Jack, I'm ashamed to say, I now live in a neighborhood where people (mostly Blacks) actually walk around in public their pajamas and house slippers. I cring each time I see this.

[@Badge1122]

In high school I made a tiny boomerang with weighted tips and would launch it with a rubber band at the back of the teacher at the black board. It would sail near to the back of her head and return to me and I would reach up and catch it. It always caused a chuckle and one day someone else grabbed it and broke it. I could never make another that flew so well. Also I would launch book match rockets but the smoke trail would give me away so only did that when the teacher was out of the room. Probably why I become a pilot. I like flying things.

[@5-frogzone22]

Neat

[@bottimind8726]

- Sent from Obamaphone

[@NoNakersAllowed]

Wow I wouldn’t have liked being your teacher

[@babiegirl526]

i wish i could see this

[@DrumWild]

These days, society is fortunate that I've chosen to wear clothing. Sometimes.

[@angelawierda760]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@glowfishin1]

Society: "Thank you!"

[@DrumWild]

@@glowfishin1 It's my little sacrifice :)

[@BadRongo]

No pants is completely Business (from home) Casual appropriate.

[@DrumWild]

@@saner6888 The first 20 seconds has mention of teachers telling children what to wear in school. This was in response to that. Try watching the whole thing from the beginning. Society telling young people what they can and cannot wear. The cognitive ability to follow a story is important. No more attention for you. Best of luck.

[@danelyman]

I wish our public education had a class or some kind of curiculum focused on cultural history like this. Maybe some American schools had classes like this, but certainly not mine. I personally think History is far too focused on the so-callled "great" events and people and we miss out on the essential context of daily life. I think that's why I'm so attracted to this channel so thanks my guy

[@SoulDevoured]

How do you highlight a single life, much less millions of them?

[@vimalcurio]

Now we have internet

[@pterafirma]

Well said, dude.

[@manuelmoraleda9285]

The teacher should always be viewed as guide to navigate the tour or escalate the mountain of knowledge expected, not some tyrant poised to punish.

[@SPayne-vn5od]

The Great man history has had a little competition in recent years. Howard Zinn and Oliver Stone have done some good work. IMO

[@thedaggonator]

If they thought that shit was over the top, they should see the things some teens do now.

[@marcycat]

Yes it's sad.

[@juangal7569]

Imagine in the future, hopefully it isn't as insane now

[@van7915]

I would go insane if I had this teacher that was in the video. He reminds me of my 3rd grade teacher fuck I hated her.

[@linguaLatinae]

David knows how to choose thumbnails

[@danieltsiprun8080]

Well he was a film maker for most of his life.

[@emie1170]

I’m in love

[@raychristie3499]

😉

[@MrCretemaniam]

I remember these horrible heated arguments between my mother and my teenage sister in the 1960s about what clothing she should or shouldn't wear... It all seems so ridiculous now. I think the girls suffered a lot more than the guys over this .

[@jodyguilbeaux8225]

true, the ladies go through all kinds of BS to look good. all a man can do is wash his ass and comb his hair.

[@kek397]

@@jodyguilbeaux8225 and be 6 feet tall shredded and have a 6 figure income.the list goes on.

[@randomepic6204]

@@jodyguilbeaux8225 that's women's faults, not mens

[@dieselgeezer18]

@@jodyguilbeaux8225 no one is forcing you to "go through all kinds of BS to look good.". If someone does, don't listen to them. Of course, that doesn't mean that you should not care at all and go around unbathed with unwashed clothes smelling like a dead fish. You don't need to paint your nails, wear necklaces, use skin care products and all this bullshit. NO ONE is forcing you. Most girls that i know do this because THEY want. They want to look good. There were girls in my school back in the days who wore dirty clothes and didn't use any skin care products. Some of them were mostly spending their time with boys and no one forced them to look beautiful. What is your problem with men washing their ass and combing their hair? Why don't women do that too? They aren't forced to be beautiful by anyone. Of course, some jobs would choose a beautiful woman over a "less beautiful" one. But that applies to men too. You can't be a Flight Attendant or bar woman-man and look like you just came out of the bed

[@The_ZeroLine]

@@dieselgeezer18 Women have always had a natural desire to look good. They enjoy it. Men, generally, don’t. But, it doesn’t matter what clothes you’re wearing, if you’re tall, handsome and ripped or if you’re short and ugly.

[@murderbunnies]

Yow those are some weirdly shaped bra's. I'm starting to understand why they used to call them Torpedos.

[@marcoroberts9462]

Like PS2 graphics

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

Bullet bras 😂

[@nitramsk8]

Marco Roberts PS1 more like

[@kevinbuda7087]

There called poindexters.....And I can't wait for that fashion to come back around

[@KRAKEN91O]

You'll poke your eyes out kid!!

[@garyk.nedrow8302]

Mr. Hoffman's films reflect the affluent high schools near major urban centers. Hicksville, in this case, is within a short drive of NYC. It isn't representative of smaller schools. In small town America in 1957, students were neither so affluent nor so worldly. The interstate highway system was still being built, and rural students seldom saw a major city of any kind until they graduated. I didn't see a college campus until basketball coaches invited me to visit my senior year. Life in small towns was insular, isolated, with radio and TV our only connection to the larger world. It was like looking at Wonderland through a keyhole. Rural schools were small (under 900 students in the top six grades); teachers knew every student personally, and their families. If you were struggling in school, the teacher wrote your Mom a personal note or talked with her on the street. The available fashions for girls were similar to those depicted here, but only the daughters of professional or mercantile families wore them. The majority of girls couldn't afford trendy clothes, and the range of apparel was narrower and more utilitarian than depicted here, especially for farm girls. To distinguished themselves, the girls used colorful accessories. Boys were permitted to wear jeans; many blue collar families could not afford anything better. Nearly all of the boys, even those from elite families, bought their clothing from a Sears catalog. You didn't get new clothes until the old ones wore thin or you out-grew them. I owned one sport coat and one pair of wool slacks -- for attending formal dances and church on Sunday. But there was a dress code, primarily affecting girls, that prohibited slacks and skirts that were too tight, blouses and sweaters that were too revealing, and hemlines that were too high. One object of the code was to keep us all virgins, and in those days, before the Pill, 99% of us made it to graduation still innocent. The second purpose, explicitly stated, was to teach us to learn proper dress for the workplace after graduation. We were all very focused on the future and making a success of ourselves. It was part of the general discipline enforced in high schools at that time -- and that proved effective, too.

[@iurgen739]

Quite interesting to see as a current teen... wow how different styles were back in the 50’s😂

[@robertmattress5975]

@MargauMonteyRibera you would have been the same way.

[@kensims4086]

You never watched happy days?

[@johnhanes5021]

I graduated high school in 66 in southern California. The dress code was different at each school. Hollywood High was a lot different than most. Almost 20 years after I graduated I worked for the school district for 14 years. The students were the same. The girls trying to get the attention of brain dead teenage boys with sexy clothing. It was quite a sight seeing girls walking to school in shorts in freezing weather. Shivvering like crazy but they discovered the power of legs and they were not going to give it up.

[@ceciliacorson1804]

Happens here in Iowa, too. As soon as temps reach the mid-thirties. 😂

[@esahutske]

Same year and school as my uncle. I bet you knew him!

[@cyndik9921]

Dad always wore a white t-shirt, jeans, rolled up at bottom, leather jacket. Mom in her sexy tight skirts, tight blouse and sweaters. 1957 onwards. They loved doing the Stroll.. lol I still have my clothes from the 70's, funny the styles coming back. Great video!

[@Kelle0284]

Ayyyyy.

[@theafflictionvhs17]

50’s Classrooms: *Students casually speaking amongst themselves* (Teacher walks in) Teacher: _WHAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR IS THIS!?!?_ Modern Day Classroom: *Students cursing, insulting one another and preoccupied with their Smart Phones* Teacher: Okay class, settle down now, we have some Cornell Notes to take today.

[@ronagoodwell2709]

Are you kidding? Today a student gets his nose out of joint and comes back from lunch with an AR-15 and 300 rounds of ammo and kills a dozen students and wounds 25 more--then he shoots himself out in the parking lot. Something ha changed.

[@onewaymichael12]

The last one should be, Class we're going to watch a movie...

[@AnonymousOneThree]

@@ronagoodwell2709 oh, that’s happening on a daily basis, is it?

[@theafflictionvhs17]

@@cody8121 _I’m 19…_

[@ronagoodwell2709]

@@AnonymousOneThree More often in the US than anywhere else on earth.

[@loudvisions9156]

“We had money back then”, love the 2020 depression days.

[@tomkelly9714]

Early Matue teenagers.. Looks growing facial hairs.. Woman having btreasts..thin figures..Some looked older...

[@michaelterrell]

Kids were allowed to work, without it being called 'Child Abuse'. I got a part time job in a TV shop when I was 13, in the mid '60s. I tell that to some people today, and they think that I had horrible parents who should have been sent to prison for signing the work permit. I made $1 per hour, for 18 hours a week. Boys mowing lawns might have made $5 a week. The TV shop also gave me a lot of B&W TVs that I fixed and sold to kids at school for $10 to $50 each.

[@danielbuezo9910]

@@michaelterrell so how much was it to buy like a good outfit shoes and all. For a boy?

[@michaelterrell]

@@danielbuezo9910 What 'good outfit'? I wore jeans and teeshirts al the time. I didn't start buying clothes until 1970, once I graduated. I was making $3 an hour at my first full time job, so a couple hours work would buy the clothes, and the shoes that I liked for work were under $10 a pair. My first car was $300. A 1963 Pontiac Catalina convertible. My girlfriend's dad did bodywork. He painted it for the wholesale price of the paint, which was about $15.

[@okd521]

I grew up in the 60s we got three shirts two pair of blue jeans and two pair of shoes every year before school started!

[@9liveslisa]

Fun film! It took me back to my schooling in the 60's and early 70's. The 60's was a transition from Peter Pan collars to vivid colors, prints and boots! Late 60's transitioned into peasant blouses, navy bell bottoms/jeans and sandals. We'd get our bell bottoms at an Army surplus store. My sister and I attended one year of boarding school. I remember my father telling us that uniforms were great for kids because everyone looked the same. No competition. We didn't believe it for a minute. But amazingly enough, I grew to like uniforms for school. You didn't have to think about what to wear every morning. And it was nice to look like everyone else. Now, I'm retired and I've given up fancy clothes and makeup and they can bury me in my blue jeans. I'm happy being barefoot and comfortable! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! P.S. Those Navy bell bottoms from the Army Surplus store were the bomb! lol!

[@MissSusieQue1]

Yes Eliz....my older sister got the COOLEST wool sailor pants .....if u had a butt...they looked fantastic. I always wanted to wear them..but they were too short...my legs were longer...wah.

[@maleficent7484]

I had many pairs of swabbies. A must have back in the day. I loved them.

[@pattyfarghaly1821]

They were. Someone stole mine Off the line. Lol.

[@swayback7375]

I was poor in school, parents could buy me cool clothes, I was in rotc and hated it, especially wearing that uniform once a week but I grew to love that. It was the one day I could defend the way I looked, I got teased either way, at least in the uniform I could say “ I had to wear it”. I also had to rebalance things so I vandalized the school every chance I got… by 10th grade I was skipping school every week, getting stoned and chasing girls.

[@looopaa9783]

i just graduated from australian catholic school and it’s still like this to this day, below the knee, studs only earrings, knee socks. how funny

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

Oi mate..I attended a all girls high school across the ditch..uniforms sucked but no choice..sweet as..

[@Lucypetuniaggm]

So, do black patent leather shoes still reflect up? I’ll explain if you don’t get the reference….

[@chuckstith838]

I wish I could count how many times I was sent to the principal's office and spanked with the board. They offered to call my dad instead of the pattle but I said no thanks. You have to stop at 3. My dad is just warming up at 3.

[@raeannaroylance5401]

Rough 😳

[@mommam.6101]

OK, I graduated in 1958 a little shy of age 18. I do not remember written dress codes. I do remember crinolines, bobby sox, pedal pushers which we were not allowed to wear except on Fridays for pep day. I do remember those pointed bras but was never able to carry off because I didn’t have anything to fill them up with. We were more restricted by the social norms rather than dress codes. Our skirts were mid length between the knee and the ankle. Most of us didn’t want to be seen as different. When the 1960s hit it was all mini skirts, go go boots, etc. By that time I was married and was too busy and harassed by 3 kids in 3 years to be worried about what was socially acceptable.

[@susanb.solstice4873]

I remember in 1965 when a boy walking down the hallway in 9th grade was accosted by a teacher and forced to tuck in his shirt. Back then every boy tucked in his button down shirt while at school. They mostly wore plaid.

[@karyannfontaine8757]

I was born in 1950, but I had older cousins and babysitter. I recall popits which were fun and pedal pushers.I was 7 years old and of course the cool clothes did not come in my size. My mother cut off a pair of slacks and hemed them to pedal pusher length just like the big girls wore. When I went to HS the dress code was strict.

[@_Maxten]

i'm surprised that freethenipple movement is even a thing in the US, I remember in the 50s-70s it was already a thing. I don't know what happened.

[@beekah992]

Censorship on social media (men can have nipples but women can't) and mothers who want to breastfeed in public brought it back

[@cattabyss]

@@beekah992 "want to"? I mean they gotta feed their kid and also go out for errands and live life lol

[@Brakvash]

I highly doubt Americans are ready for this. The general population first needs to stop consider wearing underwear and a tshirt as "naked". People can't either seperate normal nude from sexual nude either and so "free the nipple" would just be considered sexual. Even in Nordic countries where nudity is alot more normal women showing nipples is still a sexual act.

[@iluvpie20101]

Did NOT expect to see a 1957 David. So freaking cool. I was a sophomore in high school in the year 2014. Twitter existed, Skinny jeans, the Kpop generation was really popular, etc. So crazy how stark the difference is, and it makes the video that much more exhilarating. Please do post more throwbacks!

[@Robert-hp4ul]

The baby boom generation was from a 20-year period and based on them being born during that period. What is the “Kpop” generation? How solid is that term and that “generation” going to be?

[@cristianna_jasmyn]

@@Robert-hp4ul kpop refers to popular korean music that was and still is popular today.

[@emmabennett7699]

@@Robert-hp4ul do you mean Generation-Z? because Kpop is Korean pop music. I listen to K-Pop it's not something that signifies a specific Generation

[@intensivemanagement]

My mother went to this Hicksville, NY high school she would have graduated in 1957 but she met my father who was a couple of years older and had a motorcycle and a leather jacket. She left school and eventually got her GED married my father and it all worked out. Thanks once again for giving us a time machine through your lens. Love history especially Long Island history!

[@Kelle0284]

So your father is the Fonz? Ayyyyyy.

[@quackslikeaduck]

So the dress code couldn't save your mother from the fatal charms of your leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding father?

[@intensivemanagement]

@@quackslikeaduck no 😂

[@alyssarasmussen1723]

ooo i used to live near hicksville NY.. long island? i lived in queens and my mom lived all over through long island :D

[@annettejones1300]

You were not allowed to wear pants even in a blizzard. Omg ....... Blue jeans my grandmother would have beat us if she new. We changeded in our garage!! My parents had no problem whipping our tails! Non !! Getting pinned going steady that was the best ! I HAD A 4 YEAR BOY FRIEND iN CHICAGO! I didn't fool around with anyone he my boy friend totally respected me. Thow he like most other boys had a chic on the side that would sleep with them and every other sex act, how ever I didn't and he wanted to married me but had a child by her. Which he didn't let his family even know about this child till she was 8 years old. And my name in her name. God Bless this sweet young lady. How sad it must have been for her. The sad thing is her Mother who isn't the brightest girl doesn't care for me lol. She pretended to be my friend. Bottom line. The whole situation could hD been better for the young child. She has become a wonderful blessed young woman with a great family. Her mom did justice by her as did God. I wish she and I were close and she didn't listen to fools who start problems M.P. I love and admire you. May you continue to be blessed.

[@heartsofgoldenrod]

I remember a Quantum Leap episode about certain powerful adults who wanted to control the music by shutting down rock and roll. They didn’t win.

[@themermaidstale5008]

heartsofgoldenrod The preacher didn’t win in Footloose either.

[@ffgf1499]

Pm

[@markthompson4885]

@@themermaidstale5008 First thing I thought of. My feet are dancing now.

[@AP-kl2lk]

I’m still young. But I feel people in general need to dress better, too bumy or sleazy!

[@mistressofstones]

al day I like bondage and discipline. It's the best!

[@FC-hj9ub]

Real dress codes have a purpose, however dress codes are almost always used to target females and shame them, and they target people who are below the poverty line or won't conform.

[@JayKayKay7]

Born ironically enough on 9/11/1950, I was a late boomer but in Waco, TX via James Connally Air Force Base at Lacy Lakeview Elementary in 1959-1962; Dad was a Psychiatrist in the USAF and then we moved to Wiesbaden, Germany in 1963. I offer this short bio to comment on 'Dress codes" . I use to think that school uniforms was a bad idea, but now I realize that it's a lot simpler to have one. Teenagers dress according to strict rules. Social, school, or peer; saves money to have a blue shirt, khaki pants, and black shoes.

[@Aisha-ix6qz]

Happy belated birthday!

[@jameswelch628]

Post war baby boomers were born from 1946-1964.

[@freddurbin9106]

@@Aisha-ix6qz b

[@the_one_gio]

I love this channel, I'm absolutely fascinated by David's story telling and ability to give us a look at those years as if we were there.

[@katieclas6444]

Wow, thanks for reminding me of the downside of the 50's. Had a loving family, great neighborhood & friends. But school? Was smart but antsy, became class clown & eventually a teacher's nightmare by HS. Loved to get their goat, short skirts & "baby doll" dresses - get sent home & wouldn't come back. What a waste of an intelligent brain.

[@brockobama257]

David really was the cool, student body president type that got good grades, had lots of friends, supported everyone, and stood up for people, and I really appreciate that

[@YeahMcMad]

This channel has been magical for me, I'm a 27 year old Australian fulla who had an idea of these different periods based mostly on Hollywood film... but to come across these interviews, this footage, I am having the time of my life watching it all! Learning so much! Thank you for your work mate!

[@thejourney1369]

My high school didn’t get rid of the dress code till 1971. Oh those awful days of waiting for the bus in the cold in a skirt and knee socks.

[@harwoods11]

That was just the guys 😊😁😊

[@themermaidstale5008]

The Journey I lived that life, too. I graduated in 1969 and a year or two later the dress code was revised allowing girls to wear long pants to school.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

@The Journey - Same here..I frozen my ass off waiting on the bus too..wasn't allowed to wear tights..and doesn't even remember leggings..

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

@@harwoods11 - LMAO..

[@BeautyIsMyLife]

My mom told me the same story. She had to walk to school with bare legs and short skirts because that was the style at the time period, this was up tl the year1969 or 1970 and she also left school right before they allowed the girls to wear pants and tights. She would always describe it so miserably, it's so sad I feel women are the ones that suffer the most. She said the shoes they had to wear also made her feet so cold. We're from the Northwest so it was raining a lot too.

[@johnallen2771]

I remember around 1960 when the girls at my school had to kneel down on the floor whenever the teacher told them to. If their skirts touched the ground when they knelt down that was OK. Otherwise they sent you home to change. I know, sounds bizarre but it was an everyday thing. We were always trying to get around the rules anyway we could. We were the defiant ones.

[@tamarrajames3590]

I remember crinolines and poodle skirts, tying small silk scarves around our necks with a top button open...or sometimes two if you escaped notice. We also had saddle shoes. Perhaps the weirdest thing we girls wore were brassieres that resembled the nosecones of rockets...in my strapless prom dress if I turned to the side my top continued to point forward. Pop beads were definitely a must have item that was often confiscated because we played with them in class. We rolled our skirts up at the waist to get shorter hems, and when the pencil skirt arrived, even though I weighed 98 pounds and had to run around in the shower to get wet...I had to wear a girdle just in case anything wiggled. The dress codes didn’t work as planned, we always found ways to style up, and as soon as school was out the leather jackets and jeans appeared as if by magic on the “bad” boys, and girls hemlines rose by a couple of inches while an extra button might accidentally pop open. They were times when a wardrobe malfunction, like a slip showing could embarrass you for a whole day, or boys snapping the back of our bras was both titillating and mortifying at the same time. Thank you for another trip into my youth.🖤🇨🇦

[@tamarrajames3590]

Johnny Tramain You are so right about what would happen today...there used to be fights between the boys behind the broken fence behind the school every day too. If we got in trouble with a teacher and told our parents, we got in trouble again lol. It truly was a different world to be sure.🖤🇨🇦

[@capricioushorse]

Ha Ha I remember worrying about your slip showing! Your friends would discreetly say” uhmm, it’s snowing down south” and you would rush to the restroom to make adjustments. My kids don’t even know what a slip or a girdle was!

[@tamarrajames3590]

Capricious Horse it was pretty crazy the number of layers we girls wore back then, and the “foundation garments”...they were a kind of armour that shaped your body to fit the styles. Kids today have no idea how lucky they are. Remember fixing a broken garter with a penny to hold your nylons up?🖤🇨🇦

[@capricioushorse]

Tamarra James 😁yeah...good times..

[@tamarrajames3590]

Capricious Horse We were inventive to say the least.🖤🇨🇦

[@MrCretemaniam]

Teacher says' this is the poorest class I've had in a long long time" well um... Who is responsible for helping to fix that ? Berating and criticizing the kids won't help. I don't think that all of those 30 kids in that classroom are all bad kids ! He just sucks as a teacher ! That note the girl delivered to the teacher was from his psychiatrist... Saying that he's been missing appointments ! That guy wouldn't last 5 minutes when I was in School in the late 60s and early 70s ! We would have had him running for his car ! One time we were definitely too hard on this new young lady teacher . We just did stupid stuff like book drops and goofing around like these kids here .but she was young and an experienced and really sensitive . We made her cry. Then we all felt really bad and we became the best students we could. She became our favorite teacher.we found out when her birthday was and threw her a surprise birthday party, complete with a cake and even a pendant watch that we put money together and bought for her ! Then she was crying again... But this time from happiness ! So I guess we could be kind of incorrigible but we had our good side too !

[@johnfagan2156]

Helped run a bad substitute teacher off in 7th grade. '76. He did run for his car and never came back. Now I teach 7'th graders. Funny how life pays you back. These are great videos. I use mr grimes good teaching tricks. The best teacher is laid back and knows how to laugh at himself and with his students.

[@markthompson4885]

Wow ,you made me cry with that story. I am getting emotional in my old age.

[@grandifloralandscaping]

Keep watching the video and you'll see more footage where the teacher is actually shown to be a bad example. The video wasn't showing that as good teacher behavior, actually the opposite. You'll see about 3 quarters of the way through the video.

[@TheTruthlady]

Well, well, well! Let me tell you a story. In 1972, I transferred to Far Rockaway HS. It was the time of black cultural explosions, afros and political awareness, and of course the anti Vietnam era. I started wearing the African gailee, a type of turban. I was ordered to remove it but refused. Suspended, I started a campaign, got the entire school to do a walk out, it was very organized, even my Jewish friends stood with me. We stood on the perimeter of the building in silence. The police were called, the Bd. Of Ed, it was something! AND I WON! There is a pic in the 1973 yearbook of me in that gailee addressing the newly formed Black Student Union as its president. Wow did this bring back memories!

[@jamesmack3314]

TheTruthlady and now you are a senior leader of BLM😂

[@gbear1005]

Shut up and put on your mask /s

[@gbear1005]

Sorry.. did he believe that my appreciation of his acting ability gives his opinion ANY weight to me? Hint: it doesnt.

[@jamesmack3314]

me and mine just what the heck are you talking about? Are you sure you were replying to the right thing here? No Comprende

[@gbear1005]

@@jamesmack3314 let's show how we stand apart, stand tall, but then knuckle under to the man when he makes me mask up. Never confuse masks and lockdowns as SAFETY.

[@zebraskin]

Makes more sense of why my mother (whom graduated in the 60s) had such strong views when my middle school (late 90s) wanted to do a strict dress code. If I remember correctly we had to wear a polo in the school colors, khakis with a belt or a below the knee skirts (there was a couple choices of skirt fabrics allowed that I don't remember, though I believe I wore a Jean skirt that was ok). My mother got pretty radical about the dress code and ended up putting me in a different school.

[@douglasgault5458]

Style is only social camouflage, it allows one to blend in so that you don't get singled out.

[@parttime_kpopstan8061]

Well, I dress to express myself, I don't care if it fits in or not, it's just me :)

[@MustObeyTheRules]

Yep, it’s instinct to want to fit in. Anxiety is a symptom of this instinct

[@Pimp-Master]

Even out groups have rules that you have to obey. God, what nonsense!

[@Enigmatism415]

"Old Grimes, or 'Grimey', as he liked to be called, was a pretty good egg."

[@shecaptain3444]

He lost me when he started explaining the math problem on the board. My mind made a sudden exit. 🤓

[@garycitro1674]

He really wasn't a much better teacher at the end. He didn't explain what he was doing at 19:12, and quite frankly I don't remember how to do it now! And btw, if you think a teacher leaves the room now and kids complain that "they can't do their problems" because one person talked, things are a bit different these days. Now they'd be fornicating. And when the teacher makes light of misbehavior and laughs it off, these days it encoursagers others to do the same. Get your act together, Grimey! :-)

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

16:20 “mass punishment is a dangerous weapon, and doesn’t work too well” they still did that at my school, I only finished year 12 in 2018, that and I went to a private school.

[@gavinreid5387]

Mass punishment. In the 70s schools still had corporal punishment. I was in a class where every boy was hit with a sport shoe on his rear because no one would say how the class bully got an injury.

[@Kelle0284]

@@gavinreid5387 Wouldn't the class bully say how he got his injury?

[@gavinreid5387]

@@Kelle0284 he was in the gym ,almost at the top of a climbing rope, looking up. Someone below swung the rope . The bully lost his grip and slid all the way down the rope . He had friction burns on both hands . Witnesses refused to identify the culprit.

[@johnfarrelly4753]

when I was interviewed for my teaching job, the Principal asked how I felt about long hair on boys. I said, "as long as the hair didn't keep him from hearing and or block the view of the person behind him, I didn't see a problem. They must have been desperate for a teacher, because they hired me. Worst thing that ever happened, looking back. Jan. 1969.

[@funghazi]

I liked our dress code back in the 90s, there was less pressure to dress provocatively than I think girls feel now.

[@RonsonDalby]

I totally agree: school uniforms reduced the pressure on both students and parents.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

@@RonsonDalby - I wore school uniforms when I went to a all girls high school back in the mid 1970's..knee lenght..wished they was were abit abit more shorter (would had been nicer at least mid thigh)..the blouses,blazers and criss-cross ties..mid calf socks and black loafers..but shit,anything else and you would get sent home..

[@dewaynemiguel3349]

The schools didnt like the way I dressed I was like a Fonze in a school of richie's ,I didnt wear the leather jacket but my boots and cowboy hat used to piss them off,that was the good old days though at 16 I made better money then alot of grown ups today,it was life on the farm lol

[@SectionHikingTheAT]

If the child failed the test, it was their fault, today it’s teachers fault.....what a difference a generation makes.

[@gene108]

My grandfather, who would be 113 years old this year if he was still alive, was a teacher. When he stayed with us, and helped me with my homework in middle school he always said, if I was not getting it that was on him as the teacher.

[@themermaidstale5008]

gene108 I had a wonderful math professor at the junior college. If a student wasn’t getting it, this lady could explain it another way and then another way and another way until that student had an “Ah-ha” moment. Now that’s an educator.

[@Coconutlacroix]

Are you implying that young people are better educated now than they were in the 1950s? Because our math, reading, and science rankings are woefully worse than they were in the 50s in spite of the fact that we are spending the most money per pupil in history. Kids are better at expressing their asinine opinions and how they "feel" but they are underperforming in almost every other area. You can blame smart phones, you can blame sugar, you can say we need to throw even more good money after bad at teachers unions and schools, but at the end of the day our children lack discipline and are about to have their lunch eaten by China because we have had a breakdown of the family unit, and parents have utterly failed at parenting and instilling discipline. But they sure are good at Fortnite!

[@Coconutlacroix]

@@sbalogh53 You are spot on. Everything is out of wack. It's almost like we are trying to churn out a generation of youth that are malleable, entitled, unskilled and over-emotional. They are woefully unprepared for reality, and boy is reality going to be hitting hard as we face some severe economic realities. And worst of all in my opinion, many are being taught that our country and the system of government are inherently racist and needs to be fundamentally transformed. I'm starting to believe this is left over fallout from Cold War subversive campaigns.

[@GraceAloneThroughFaithAlone]

@@Coconutlacroix @Dexxter Good morning Jon and Dexxter. Having grown up in a home with "boomer parents" and being born in 1982, I must say I YEARN for a society with more discipline, and self respect. I'm sure we can agree that today's institutional, no accountability, style of 'learning' is not producing the desired educational results, nor societal ones either, especially for the TRILLIONS of dollars we throw into it. I hate to sound like a "The end is nigh" person, but we have what appears to be a full breakdown of societal accountability, and decency. This degradation worries me in particular for two reasons: short term it will lead to complete wanton chaos, and then out of that chaos there will be a severe over correction to complete authoritarian control- history has shown us this. So, in order to avoid the aforementioned over correction, we do need more "discipline" which is actually accountability, and to get education back to smaller independent style schools. I think we can find a good balance of asking for social, and personal responsibilities, while still preserving freedom for children.

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

You were getting money as a teenager? I already wish I lived back then lmao.

[@snippletrap]

No immigrants to compete with, for one...

[@salvadorcabrera8592]

@@snippletrap Ik we are just more superior and less lazy that we became “competition”

[@snippletrap]

@@salvadorcabrera8592 When supply goes up, price goes down

[@MissSusieQue1]

@@snippletrap uh.....wow...just wow...smh.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@snippletrap when supply goes up, price goes up. That's the way its ought' to have always been

[@joeo7257]

Such a fine line between the two approaches, yet a huge result! I believe that today children are given choices that exceed their ability to make decisions, then bailed out far too easily. Quite a thought provoking video.

[@EpicKate]

My husband was watching this with me and was just flabbergasted that in the 20's boys had to wear hats, because here in Sweden, that is the only thing being debated, whether students should be allowed to wear hats/hoodies! These kids don't have any dress code at all, which was pretty surprising to me!

[@sheacrowley3659]

That's so cool! I just graduated high school in America not that long ago and now hats and other head coverings are banned (except for religious reasons) "because they make it hard to identify you on security cameras" which is especially bull for many of the headwraps students of color wear because it actually HELPS them stand out from a crowd visually but go off, American school system.

[@decrox13]

Our high school in Chicago just got the ability to wear hats, hoodies, and bandanas to school

[@diwi5823]

Only men could’ve invented something that best resembled silly-looking ice cream cones under a blouse and convince women that they were wearing breast-enhancing underwear.

[@aikido775]

Taps on shoes. Waterfalls and ducktails. Pomade. rolled up never washed 501 Levis. They could stand on their own. Buckled motorcycle boots. White tshirts. cigarettes rolled up in short sleeve shirts. Saddle shoes. Cat eye glasses. oh, the 50's...

[@brendan5235]

Awesome video! As a 23-year old that has no memory before the 2000s, it is always fascinating to hear you talk about youth and society from your younger years

[@jeaniechowdury576]

Brendan its wonderful that you appreciate cultural history at your age!

[@brendan5235]

Thanks! US cultural history is a very large interest of mine, I just love to learn about how society and mindsets change with the times.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

@Brendan - Millennials would shit themselves if they had to wear what we did to go to school..

[@MissSusieQue1]

@@cynthiaclarke3979 LoL

[@emmacooper4286]

24 here! So cool to see someone else my age that finds these interesting haha

[@landryprichard6778]

As a high school student in an all-white conservative unofficially-christian academy in Mississippi, we had very strict dress codes. No hair that met your shoulders, no facial hair, no skirts of a certain length. On the latter, the teachers would measure the length between the seam and her knees. What was unsettling is that 'spanking' was an official form of punishment; usually by a male teacher or principal...on teenage female students. I still think Indianola Academy owes me for my therapy sessions decades later. Hehe.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

Are you fugging kidding me? You should be glad you were raised with discipline and taught to respect your attire. Look at those who weren't. They are now wearing pink pussy hats, dying their pink and running around like lunatics.

[@shaunw9270]

My ears just caught fire ! Indianola MS ? Now I can't stop thinking about BB King ! I live here 🇬🇧, it's immensely boring lol ✌️😊🎸

[@tygacereal2979]

AmericanPatriot tf u talking about

[@landryprichard6778]

@@shaunw9270 Dude! BB King's homecomings (every first weekend in June) were like our 4th of July, Christmas and Halloween all rolled into one. When he passed in 2015, it was a horrid June indeed without The King. 😭 How is the Delta these days?

[@shaunw9270]

@@landryprichard6778 Unfortunately I've never visited the USA . Would love to take a trip to the Delta.

[@observer7418]

Everyone is fond of their own 'coming of age' period but to try to return to is, especially on a societal level, is absurd and problematic in itself. The future is in front of us. We progress into it. Be progressive (not you David, those who seek this type of disciplinarian, authoritarian attitude) and stop trying to force your will on the nature of change. The man holding back the tide drowns.

[@staytruog]

Im going to college to be a teacher and plan to one day use you many of your videos as historical documents, keep em coming mr hoffman!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Please do!

[@rosalindr4975]

God bless you. Best of luck with college being so restrictive with COVID situation. Teaching runs in my family, very rewarding and challenging

[@bryonnajones]

I have yet to watch a single video by this man that I didn’t like or appreciate

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you. That (for me) is good news. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@joelfolgner8234]

David, I don't usually comment much, but I just have to say I enjoy the heck out of your videos. I'm in my early 30s and feel like I'm finally understanding what it means to "remember another time". I think this new viewpoint has really opened a new interest in past times and your channel has just been a treasure trove. You have such an amazing collection! I also really enjoy your insight before most of your videos. You're one cool Boomer!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you Joel Cool I am and enjoying every minute of it. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@tetekofa]

In the 1950's you could go to Las Vegas and watch the Nuclear Mushroom Clouds.

[@busdriver127]

Brings back memories. I went to high school in the fifties and saw the attempted enforcement of dress codes. The only thing that worked in that high school was no trousers on girls. Some girls would go bra less under those tight sweaters. Ahhh, tight sweaters, blouses and tight skirts, talk about distractions in classrooms, and in the halls. I finished high school in 1954 and went to work for the U.S. Government and saw many women in the offices dressing the same way, pointy bras and all. And not just the young women, there were some well into middle age who had the figures to carry it off.

[@not2late2game53]

I didn't want this teaching to end.

[@mr.barkyvonschnauzer1710]

David Hoffman, your stories of the 50s and 60s are incredibly fascinating to me. My father was born in 1955, I love listening to his childhood stories. Times were certainly different.

[@starrlara2599]

Write them down , so you can pass them along to your younger family members and future descendants.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

Too bad they didn't keep them like that. Now we have kids wearing pajamas to school and rings in their noses like a sow. I live near a school and I'm disgusted by what they let these little hussies wear. Then they wonder why so many get pregnant in high school. There is an epidemic of stupidity in this country.

[@globalfamily8172]

In second grade, I actually got sent to the principal for having an oil spot on my dress. Like I had any control over my laundry at that age. The same woman denied me my milk carton because I didn't hear my name called. Well, my neighbor came down to the school and ripped her a new one. Was treated really nice after that.

[@adelaidemorningstar1870]

I wish we could have controlled the tattoos of today’s society

[@movie30000]

U can't control anything, but to promote thinking and moral. I'm 36, no tattoos, no necklace, still a virgin. Ub can't do all that when actually hollywood controls the minds otherwise.

[@parttime_kpopstan8061]

@@movie30000 What's wrong with tattoos tho? I think the age where you can get them should be 16 or 18 and you just should be mature enough to know they'll stay there forever, being drunk while being tattooed should be illegal (bad decision making...) but otherwise? what's wrong with it? And please don't say religion...

[@adelaidemorningstar1870]

Tattoos used to be a drunken sailor thing,now it’s soccer moms and daughters getting tattooed up,,,,and the cost of removal is skyrocketing

[@mridlon1634]

13:43 & 20:53 I love how they depict the hispanic (maybe Native American) kid as some heathen. 😂

[@Simonjose7258]

That's hilarious. Totally showing the cool kids how to dress.

[@melloone611]

Elvis Presley was way ahead of his time. Not only in music but the way he dressed despite growing up in the Deep South.

[@lillianshelton382]

elvis was inspired greatly by black artists before him

[@tula1433]

The insane policing of dress codes and gender rules will always fascinate me. As someone who was a very feminine child I went through WAY too much strife just for being naturally feminine! They claim that their is an attack on masculinity now but there has always been an attack on anything feminine. Put a girl in a suit and no one cares, but a boy in a skirt and everyone freaks out. Very strange and really NOT worth al l the panic in the grand scheme of things!!

[@SeeCSeesCC]

Oh my gosh, my Mom and her fashion addiction, lasted until she passed, started in the 50s. Ive got photos of her 1950s persona! The Peter Pan collar, pedal pushers the DA hairstyle. Yes. ❤️

[@WorldT]

seems the video was saying that the teacher was incorrect? however they still did this in the 1980s when i was in public school

[@gavinreid5387]

1950s the most ridiculous brassieras in the history of human kind.

[@BAM-jc7uy]

For girls Buster Brown white anklets vs the rolled or thick cuffed bobby socks. Under the flared skirt, sometimes a hoop slip with one or two sets of starched crinolines. The 40's black and white saddle oxfords OR the Rock n Roll saddle oxfords with the tiny belt buckle at the heel and a more streamline shoe. The jumper-skirt with a very wide waist band that fitted below the breast and same cloth straps that may or may not have crossed at the back. The skirt zippers were found on the left side of the skirt. Fitted/straight/tight skirts always had a lining. The lightweight cardigan sweater was worn backwards with the buttons running down the back. The girls always wore a "foundation" girdle under the straight skirt----maybe the Skippy Formfit by Rogers. In the early 50's there were really not many Teen dress shops---except in higher-end department stores and for the upper middle class, so that meant you wore mom's or older sis' altered skirts or dresses changed into jumpers. At the very beginning of the sixties, the Boomers were seeing more teen clothing at dress shops and dept stores in general. Depending on the skirt or dress fabric, hems were 2 to 4 inches wide---not serged edged and turned over like today. Don't forget the $5 transistor radio running on one 9V battery, and the very small, lightweight record player running on C batteries. At St Vincent Academy, Albq, you wore bobby socks over the white anklet sock, and outside the school fence you peeled the bobby socks off and went on school grounds wearing klunky saddle oxfords and white plain anklet socks. NM

[@rb032682]

Positive motivation works so much better than strict discipline.

[@songs359359]

David, you don't look a day over 60, although my math says you should be older. What's your secret?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

I have made several videos on my attitudes towards aging. Search the word "aging" on my KZbin channel and you may find one or two of them. Worth watching. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@Surfcityham]

Graduated in 1963 from Northview High School in Covina CA. The girl's skirt length was tested by the girl kneeling. If the skirt touched the ground, it was long enough. I wore "ivy league" pants and button-down shirts. Many. of us wore Pendelton shirts over short sleeve white shirts (and skinny dark ties) for a more formal look.

[@purearab772]

I was just watching American pickers, and u look and sound exactly like the guy they were buying antiques from.

[@joshuasobel7089]

Love your videos David. I wasn't alive back then, born in the 80's, but it's awesome getting a glimpse into the past. And your storytelling is commanding. Keep it up!