Short Skirts and Water Cures
An intimate look at the unconventional life of a 19th-century trailblazer May 2015
In the late 1960s, my friends and I decided to wear pants to our public high school. We were promptly sent home and ordered not to return unless we were wearing a skirt or a dress.
My friends and I believed we were gutsy girls in the vanguard, and a year later, the school reversed its…