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Current Talk '08 I / Re: "lemon or cream?"
« on: May 22, 2008, 06:17:05 AM »but i do think that as an afternoon drama,with advertisers of such housewife friendly products as toothpaste and laundry detergent,the producers made a decision to attire the girls like proper young ladies rather than 'hippies' or members of the counter culture percolating at the time.
True. Plus (and we've gotten into this in the past with why Barnabas would never have been seen wearing a leisure suit () and why David would never have been seen wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and/or sneakers), the Collinses breeding would have dictated that they be "properly" attired at all times (well, except in extremely rare instances, like when Carolyn was rebelling against Liz because of Jason- but even she was quick to fall back into the fold once that was all settled). And by extension Vicki would have been expected to dress similarly. And Maggie would have known what sort of attire was expected of her when paying a social visit to the mansion. None of them would have been parading around Collinwood as if it was Haight-Ashbury - or even Carnaby Street. (David's nehru jacket was about as wild as we were ever likely to see - but note that we saw it once and never again. )
Another thing to probably consider is that all soap towns during DS' run tended to be on the conservative side with families, even the not so well-to-do ones, being set in their ways. Anyone showing up in any one of them looking like they belonged in Haight-Ashbury would have been run out of town on a rail!