Thirty years ago this month, I graduated from high school at Western Christian College, then in Weyburn. And here I am delivering my valedictory speech (an extended riff on our class motto, “Climb Every Mountain”–why yes, the school had staged The Sound of Music that year, how did you guess?) at the graduation ceremony on June 5, 1976, while Mr. Pennington, one of our teachers, looks at me in apparent disbelief.
Marvel at the plethora of polyester goodness I am wearing–and feast your eyes on the pièce de résistance of my ensemble, the white shoes and, just visible, the matching white belt.
Sartorial splendor of the seventies, exhibit A.
