Go-Go boots – Mary Burns had a pair in the first grade – 1963. She was the only girl in my class with those cool boots and I wanted a pair desperately but never got them. Hers were earlier than the shiny, stretchy white or black versions. They were mid-calf, white leather with a leather stack heel. How is that after almost 40 years, I still remember sitting in the class circle admiring her boots?

Now I did get the Red Ball Jets… the white Keds-like shoes with the Red Ball on the back.

Yep – had fishnets and windowpane stockings. How’d we keep our toes from going through those?