This is your mother's Rush! What we wore 1960-1990

[ellebud]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Oh, ellebud... you didn't let me down!

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by carnation

Did you guys wait eagerly for the August issue of Seventeen, which was double-thick and had the latest styles in it?

You'd better believe it, baby!!

[ellebud]

Uh..yes!

....and Glamour and Mademoiselle.........

[Tulip86]

Teen Vogue all the way..

[BraveMaroon]

I miss Sassy. I'd probably still be a subscriber.

[barbino]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I miss Sassy. I'd probably still be a subscriber.

Sassy? I don't remember this at all, but I remember & read the other magazines mentioned. What was it?

[33girl]

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9826498

While it was cool to see a magazine promoting alternative fashion/music/beauty, IMO it went too far - in much the way that the feminist movement did. It went from "here's a choice if you don't feel like you can ever be that perfect girl in Seventeen" to "if you for one second ever liked anything in Seventeen you must be some kind of loser and are in no way cool enough to hang out with us." In other words, it became just as cliquish as the cliques it was originally created to shun.

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

[barbino]

OK- now I understand- this magazine was "After my time."
I still get In Style, though.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9826498

While it was cool to see a magazine promoting alternative fashion/music/beauty, IMO it went too far - in much the way that the feminist movement did. It went from "here's a choice if you don't feel like you can ever be that perfect girl in Seventeen" to "if you for one second ever liked anything in Seventeen you must be some kind of loser and are in no way cool enough to hang out with us." In other words, it became just as cliquish as the cliques it was originally created to shun.

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

I was in the 7th grade when that mag came out. My sister ordered it in a school magazine drive. She got one issue, and my dad was so offended that he promptly canceled her subscription.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

Ha! That's funny - I don't even remember the sorority article - clearly, it didn't impact me!

What I do remember is an article about what it feels like to be "turned on", and that it caused a huge stink with some parents, but my mother (a nurse and a hippie) thought it was honest and well-written and that's what prompted her to get me a subscription.

And yes, Jane Pratt definitely let it go to her head.

That said, Sassy had some great fiction, it was irreverent, and was a little less fashion focused than Seventeen.

I read it for about three years...

[AlisonMK]

Didn't Sassy have a glossier cover than the other teen magazines or is my memory not serving me well?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AlisonMK

Didn't Sassy have a glossier cover than the other teen magazines or is my memory not serving me well?

Yes the cover stock was shinier than other magazines.

[honeychile]

Another Seventeen junkie here! Does anyone remember a magazine that wasn't quite as flashy as Seventeen, I think its name was Teen? It was a sponsor of the Miss TeenAge America contest. I loved that one, too.

When I was going through rush (and that was 6 weeks long, with chat dates, mixers, and a LOT of non-NPC approved parties), I can remember a sister showing me some Adelpheans and one had a Miss Teen America from a few years before. I remembered her from Teen, and was SO impressed!! She still shows up in the occasional Adelphean for a charity.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by NUBlue&Blue

1981

Navy bermuda shorts and kelly green Ralph Lauren polo shirt (which had to be specially purchased at the only store in Nebraska that carried them), collar UP, no doubt, and navy blue bass sandals for open house.

White sleeveless wrinkly cotton dress with ruffle and embroidery, white espadrilles for skit and house tours.

Royal blue skirt and blouse outfit with sleeveless v-neck top with a big ruffle around the v and a ruffle on the bottom of the skirt....can't remember what shoes I wore. I think this was pref. I might be missing a day.

Navy blue and white striped short sleeved wrapdress, navy pumps for bid day, we were told to wear navy blue. Actives wore black dresses. Pictures on the lawn in dresses. Then for our party later, we wore navy shorts and our brand spanking new white Kappa Kappa Gamma SWEATSHIRTS with the sleeves pushed up. In August.

I already had the white dress and loved it. I bought the blue skirt and blouse outfit in Lincoln and went on a pilgrimage to Omaha for the RL polo shirt. I'm pretty sure I had the blue and white striped dress already, too. I know I wore it for years to work and church after college.

Brandeis or Miller & Paine?

[LXA SE285]

OK, when I read that, all I could think of was this SNL skit. Warning: extremely politically incorrect.

"... but it wouldn't hoit." God bless Gilda Radner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvObT3EFNUY