Saturday, February 07, 2004
Vintage Definition
Came across this one in Cheaper by the Dozen:
Cootie garage
One of a pair of hair puffs worn over a woman's ears. c. 1920 use (definition from Wentworth and Flexnel's Dictionary of American Slang)
It's also entered the Buffyverse, out of context as usual (see five by five). I went looking through my books and ephemera for illustrations and found that the 1922 Redskin, the yearbook of Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University), was a veritable smorgasbord of cootie garages (hence the picture at left; I've disguised the OAMC co-ed in case she's somebody's grandmother. Or great-grandmother. That would be an alarming thing to find on somebody else's web site).
And all of this reminded me of one of my favorite stories, Bernice Bobs Her Hair. I read it in Great Books in 7th grade and it got me reading Fitzgerald--which I suppose is the whole point of Great Books, isn't it?
Came across this one in Cheaper by the Dozen:
Cootie garage
One of a pair of hair puffs worn over a woman's ears. c. 1920 use (definition from Wentworth and Flexnel's Dictionary of American Slang)
It's also entered the Buffyverse, out of context as usual (see five by five). I went looking through my books and ephemera for illustrations and found that the 1922 Redskin, the yearbook of Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University), was a veritable smorgasbord of cootie garages (hence the picture at left; I've disguised the OAMC co-ed in case she's somebody's grandmother. Or great-grandmother. That would be an alarming thing to find on somebody else's web site).
And all of this reminded me of one of my favorite stories, Bernice Bobs Her Hair. I read it in Great Books in 7th grade and it got me reading Fitzgerald--which I suppose is the whole point of Great Books, isn't it?
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