Off-center belt.....Yes, in high school in the 50's we used to wear our belts off-center. It was cool, we thought. Ever so often we'll don a belt at first off-center just because it turns out to be off (-center). Hey, we think, that looks sort of cool. Maybe we should leave it that way. Off-center.
Being off-center in those McCarthy era days was daring. We wore leather jackets and blue air force field jackets, and olive drab army field jackets. Our cars were lowered and with dual exhausts. At our coolest, we also wore angora sweaters (if we were girls), v-neck sweaters with T shirts underneath, white bucks and saddle shoes, and red, red lipstick + bobby socks (mostly the girls).
When the raccoon news saw the picture above in Sunday's Times it all came flooding back. That was the way to wear a belt. Jackie Gleason was hip. We think we should go back to that.
And, heaven forbid we should ever - in any age - be thought of as anything but off-center. And to the left................
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