Captain Poofter to Today I [email protected]English • 10 months agoTIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clotheslemmy.worldmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1186
arrow-up1186imageTIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clotheslemmy.worldCaptain Poofter to Today I [email protected]English • 10 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-210 months agoI can’t find anything that isn’t a reference to Archie, either. I’d be interested to know if this truly is an internet blind spot or not. Perhaps it was an extremely local thing that one of the writers had growing up?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoPretty sure it’s an Archie thing. I remember Sadie Hawkins dances when I was a kid, and never heard of the patch thing.
I can’t find anything that isn’t a reference to Archie, either. I’d be interested to know if this truly is an internet blind spot or not. Perhaps it was an extremely local thing that one of the writers had growing up?
Pretty sure it’s an Archie thing. I remember Sadie Hawkins dances when I was a kid, and never heard of the patch thing.