Captain Poofter@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 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.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1187
arrow-up1187imageTIL 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@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-29 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-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 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.