Captain Poofter to Today I LearnedEnglish • 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 clothesimagemessage-square18arrow-up1186arrow-down16
arrow-up1180arrow-down1imageTIL 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 clothesCaptain Poofter to Today I LearnedEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square18
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish5•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.