Anything trending on Twitter about Bread Bags?
I don't do Twitter so - just curious?
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I like to think I have made up for it in the ensuing 40 years
Looking back, it's astonishing how much of a role brands played. If you didn't wear jeans in 8th grade in 1980, you were outcast. If you wore Levi's jeans you were in the dominant group, competing with those who wore Lee jeans. And then there was the shoes. I had bread bag mittens during two of my childhood winters.
We were brainwashed. Our social lives and self-worth were being defined by having the latest, and usually expensive, style. Our parents bought it because we felt our lives depended on it. Everyone was quick to call someone un-cool, and afraid of being called that themselves.
TV shows and commercials defined us. In a way I didn't really get to enjoy those years, because we were all just acting out what we saw on television. Not just the characters in the shows that we watched, but we also reflected the competition between brands in our childhood play.
So you can imagine how kids with bread bags would feel in that living commercial.
It was pretty fucked up. Every time I remember something from that period, I am astonished. It's like a dream!
But it also meant going to a new school, High School, so the "new person fitting in" thing was easily exploitable at that age.
We were god-damn rats in an experiment. What we see today are the products of those experiments. 
I hate that I found myself almost sticking up for her even though I haven't even been watching 
I thought it was cool because Mom always bought Wonder bread, the one with big pretty dots. We walked to school, so we'd put bread bags over our shoes, and secure them with rubber bands up to about shin-level. I had NO idea this meant we were poor. I thought it was pretty damn smart.
They call it recycling now.
under questionable wet-snow footwear. Kept our socks drier. 
It was the 70's.
