Thank you. I would have done anything to get those mary janes instead of the ugly brown or eggplant purple lace ups my parents loved so much. However, you know, it was the 70's.
Also, my parents were a little out of step with the times. Most people's parents at that point were baby boomers, but my parents were in their 30's when they had me. Dad was born in the late 1930s and Mom was born in the early 1940s.
It's a bit funny for me when people talk about "boomers" as though they are ancient and out of step because the "boomer" parents were the cool parents that other kids had. They were freshly finished with their idealism of being hippies and on their way to the pragmatism of being yuppies when I was a kid. My parents were simply confused.
I don't even know what their generation is called. Just a bunch of confused individuals. Jaboci? It doesn't roll off the tongue?
My parents were born like yours the very end of the 30s and mid 40s respectively, but they didn't have me until the 80s. So I really lucked out on the childhood fashion too.