July 27, 2004 at 12:00 am #47239
Eric
Participant
The covering of the drink bottle/can used to be standard. As a small boy I recall the carhop bringing small glass (pop)bottles of Dr.Pepper on a tray with each bottle wrapped in a napkin. She hung the tray rig on the car. This was the 1950s. There was no permanent press, so women (sometimes men who had no ironing money to pay) ironed all their clothes. Some even ironed underwear and bed sheets. It was considered unladylike or ungentlemanly to be seen looking as if ‘you just got up out of bed’. Baggy clothes were not ‘cool’. Tailoring was ‘in’.