What was an absurd rule you had to follow when you were growing up?

@Mamapolo2016 My parents considered them impractical as swim wear. My sister wore one as a model in a fashion show. I had no such excuse.

I think my folks considered them too practical.@bijouxbroussard

@Mamapolo2016 I wonder if it was a generational thing. I see little girls in bikinis all the time.

@dragonfly46 Little girls, yes. Big girls? Not in my folks’ house. It was most definitely a generational thing.

The decade my folks were born, swim wear fashion for women was:

@Mamapolo2016 Oh yeah, did you see those swimming "costumes" . They even had modest tents in the ocean so women could swim without being seen.

@dragonfly46 My sister and I were always a little surprised Dad didn't build one for us. Luckily for Dad we were in landlocked Pennsylvania, far from any beaches, and everybody else in the community was countrified too.

@dragonfly46 This just came back to me. A family from St Pete, FL moved in when I was about twelve, and at the church picnic, held in a pavilion on a lake - both the mother and teenage daughter wore bikinis.

Gasp. Smelling salts. Fainting couches came back into vogue - for the men this time.

😂😂😂

@Mamapolo2016 Scandalous!! 😆

@dragonfly46 Funny to think it, but it was shocking - in a one horse Pennsylvania town in the early 60s, it was. To the people’s credit - they didn’t get shunned or tarred and feathered or anything - the local populace was just all eyes.

@Mamapolo2016 I’ve never heard of a no bikini rule.

@Jenny1234 Times changed REALLY FAST.

@Mamapolo2016 I think there are two other women on this thread who had the same rule