4.Dungarees and Undershirts

The 1950’s was a period of many different types of styles. This includes hair, clothing choices, and footwear. Living during this time period as a middle and high school student it seemed to be the perfect time period for my grandpa to show interest in these styles. He said as a young teen he would wear the most popular shoe of the time, the “P F flyers.” Along with P F flyers as a young boy he would wear a ball cap a pair of dungarees with a white undershirt. As he got older and moved into the high school he picked up smoking, but only when he was out of season for sports. Attending Aquinas Academy it was viewed as disrespectful if someone smoked while in season for sports. As soon as his season ended, he began to smoke. To hold his cigarettes he would roll the sleeves to his undershirts and use that as a little holder for them. He would usually only smoke lucky strikes, once in a while he would buy a pack of camel. My grandpa’s style while attending Aquinas Institute was to wear dungarees with flannel lining and the bottoms rolled up. Along with the dungarees he would wear a plain white undershirt or an undershirt with a flannel shirt over it. The shoe of choice for him was either the penny loafer or white bucks. The white bucks are popular shoes that were made popular by a man named Pat Boon. He would gel his hair in the “D A” style which was when all of the back was gelled together. This choice of clothing was only when he was out of Aquinas. Since Aquinas had a dress code to school he would have to wear khaki pants and a collared shirt with a tie and a nice pair of shoes.