Oh dear lord, the GYM SUITS! Gad, those were awful - I suspect the same people who designed jail uniforms moonlighted as gym suit designers. Ours were those gakky one-piece double knit jobs with orange and grey striped tops and orange shorts....URK URK URK...
Fishnets, yes...and I remember the "hair ironing'...also the infamous trend of rolling long hair up on soda or beer cans.
Troll dolls creeped me out - I just couldn't deal with them, although they were certainly popular. I had a Chatty Cathy, and the obligatory Barbie doll, as well as the little sister, friend or something named "Midge" - freckle-faced red head doll.
There was also Betsy Wetsy (messy messy)
We didn't have reading groups that I remember, but I distinctly recall in grade school, grade 1, 2 and 3, there was the "Humpty
Dumpty Wall of Shame".(they didn't call it that at the time, that was my addition)..each person had a Humpty Dumpty paper cutout pasted above the chalkboard with our name on it, and if you didn't clean your plate at lunch, your Humpty Dumpty got turned upside down. Imagine if they did that today?
There were also clearly displayed paddles, one I remember being labeled "the board of education". Yes, teachers actually paddled children in those days if they were REALLY BAD.
And the CAFETERIA FOOD - good lord what were they thinking? They used to announce the school lunch menu on the local radio station, and my brother and I used to laugh at the "Beenie Weenie" announcement. We had something called "Peanut Butter Balls"....they were literally quarter sized round wads of peanut butter rolled in cereal flakes. And it wasn't Jif or Peter Pan-we referred to it as "industrial waste peanut butter"...UGH
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