Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1950-07-12

COLUMN
=, Il FORAGE CARTER

S,,.y.r NATTER OF PANTS
y ~, .-.. respite from tobacco
,,..,,,~ nd potential hail to
.srn,n .sough one of those
S,,-,rs .rStapiSt" magazines.
S",,a mig must have tossed
:. N Gi,c2 while going home.
:. NJ, ,azy,hot TO stay with
80 ,7?-.-..ea.ed text. so we took
r ~, ne ads. There. in all
.bs,- g..--.ac uonp. a pair of
r..,,.~r Walking Shorts sort of
s.oppr: us N our tracks. We
rort,r,t .oaI. The rig. we decid-
- j, >.-a.'y less panties than
,ar-, Y.u wear en- on the out
70. NJ. ne in. That is, you
n.ar en- mas or any way you
Van, II you're minded to meet
.sa SItq5 nat the Teller wants
- Hsrd.saG,e stuff called fold
!ng dough,
" r. orr thoughts take ram
b's - me realms of just plain
mans These bifurcated thing
mT,.vg> -avr caused a lot of
s,stv.a..rr trough the years. A
n. Of n...a.0E. 100. and pulling
away wa.a ,aey stick. You haul
on, I'D :. ~ down, and Shinmy
EN- dow 20 stand up.
Devil o: a HUiSance-pants ....
I: me artists portrayal is
righ, Washington must have
bssr sav on pants when he cross
things ina, passed for EN- reSem-
81 me famous Delaware. The
BE al.cgs-aer much what polite
folks used 70 wear just under
meath.
Then. about at the century's
turn. the hovS at Yale land San
spaaawt -, national style with
psg,:opS. 7: YOU didn't have a
tu!gv knee and skinny cufs
YOU wa~.1'. worth a boot with
YOUR girl Neither could you
sick the bottoms in your boots,
j: luck Wac with you on the
ea,asr.
Our ow0 first pair of longies
pants. We meanl was a mix
ture of grief and gorgeousness;
a wonder % behold. Folks didn't
Jump to longies through any
Skeletal length; they waited til
ne old man caught them sneak
ing off with mis- razor. It was
easier. mus. on the hand-me-
down In retrospect. we guess
we've grown four inches since
the interchange from short to
long.
Those first long'uns were a
problem, They were walking
pants TOO We walked to school
and back in them, but after
wards We took 70 chores in denim.
School aside, pants were only for
buryinS' and Christian Endeavor
paradeS They were rigs to
avoid the patch. but they some
now aiwarS SuCcumbed. A good
patch Shcne with craftsmanship.
The girls would gather around
to observe the tricky needlework,
Pants, Of course. had pockets
ana 'a"y we're a heaven apart.
Dead BIRDS wads of clay-pen,
ell stubs old bolts-racy post.
cards-h'ayen itself knows what.
Il was al. 50 very, very wonder
full.
Little girls they told u.s.
alant have such pockets. They
nad 70 come 20 school with their
nanGkleS Scwed TO their shirts.
Il got SOY, OF rugged to see how
'oAEe those handkies stood up
ander woar and tear. but polite
A'tLe girls we're never supposed
10 blow nose, Folks just didn't
DO SucA things.
"neN We first hit school in our
own long pants, the devil was to
pay The boys ganged around
ana rolled en- up to see whether
socks Went with EN-. 1t was
Sill n" old black stockings;
economy saw to that. We strut
Sea our first pair of garters some
weeks a,er; damn things itched.
IN our own generation, pants
nave taken quite a swoop around
UF circuit. Recall the vintage
u pre-twentieS when the bottoms
Ss"eo out Navy style? A guy
SaSnt 1T for church unless he
tapped both fore and aft. But
,aey mad one point to the good;
.Ney Shrouded down a lot of beat
up Shoes.
then came pleats- half
pun pockets and a dozen other
. ~ just as odd. oldest of
a. ~ came zlpperS, but we won't
81 INTO that. Shaggy-eared
~. indies "ith hair on their heels
a''9"ed they knew a button from
an .'4ii''oatc, and they'd be roy
a r po90-Dah'd if they'd twiddie
s %stn that sissy-rig. Zippers be
Sang DANCED.
., "Ut the stylists won their bat
w. W. ana the buttons took the
r, Y1'''' SIC transit much that's
1sseo n the stronghold of the
"eA, Gid age Tor even middle
~ se' lends new perspective to
a', picture. The advertising
i n:S car vel until they're bluer
s.oS Sle lace, but we'll forego all
ca and English Walking
S,,"H and trouserettes, and
Ill ard settle for a good old
~ '''ofltd pair of pants. Any
~ pants will do. The less
nc! lie pressed, the better. We
HNPIy hold for q h,,rnhlo Sr,aci-