Redwood fashion in the early ‘60s looked like Pleasantville to the untrained eye. Girls wore long skirts and covering shirts and boys were likely to wear a tie.

Because girls were not allowed to wear pants to school, box-pleated skirts were popular.

With such a limited wardrobe, there was pressure to accessorize well. Marilee Rogers, Class of 1961, campaigned to require uniforms.

“When I was a junior, we tried to actually have uniforms because there was just so much clothes competition,” Rogers said. “The uniform was a gray box pleated skirt with a white button-down blouse with a peter pan collar, which was a rounded collar, and a red cardigan sweater or a gray one.”

A sufficient number of people wore the uniforms to stop the competition problem, though they were not the majority. However, some girls went to extremes to make sure they never wore the same outfit twice.

“I had girlfriends who’d have lists in their closets of what they had worn for the entire month,” Rogers said.

According to Rogers, most boys wore nice pants and button-down shirts.

By the later ‘60s, fashions were already changing into what we saw in the ‘70s- jeans, floral prints, and sandals began to enter the scene.