We had hors d'oeuvres and dinner and dancing to an eight‐piece band, and I wore a long brown chiffon gown.” I had only been to one big wedding I had never experienced a big party. Heidi Hoppenfeld, also of Scarsdale, felt that the formality of her Sweet Sixteen at the Rye Town Hilton was akin to adult merrymaking. When you're dressed up, there's a reason for coming.”

The guys wore ties and jackets, they looked fantastic and the girls wore fancy sundresses.

My Sweet Sixteen wasn't like that-there were 120 people, there was Italian food and sangria, and everyone danced to records all night. At open houses, everyone runs around and drinks beer and smokes pot and grabs whatever there is to eat. “I wanted to make sure it wouldn't turn into just another party. “I wrote ‘dressy attire’ on the invitations,” said Janene Ribner of Scarsdale. The idea of “niceness” and ‘proper form-of presiding over an affair at which the guests supposedly look and act like adults-seems a common concern among girls recently turned 16, regardless of the style of their individual parties.

If Sweet Sixteens are coming back, it indicates a resurgence of interest in things more familiar and traditional, things which are considered ‘nice.'” From that view, it is easy to see how the counterculture would have rejected it: Rock music, acid-the things the counterculture people were into-are sharp ant biting, and they clash with the idea or sweetness. Dukt continued, “it lacks force, taking on instead aspects of cuteness, sweetness. “As a social rather than body‐oriented ritual,” Dr.

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