Guess the University.

[_just me]

Need another hint?

1964 Homecoming queen:

OMG *drool*

can i has this dress?

[_just me]

http://i.imgur.com/zdAvSUl.jpg

Good Afternoon! I had the opportunity yesterday to get out of my office to visit the Constitutional Day display in the McKay quad. It was inspiring to see the flags and read the words of the prophets about the U.S. constitution. I am grateful for all the people who made the display possible.

While out and about yesterday I noticed that a few of you (and it was a few) may need a refresher or perhaps an introduction to three items in the dress and grooming standards. The three things that caught my eye yesterday were pants that did not make it down to the ankle (some hemmed off 4-8 inches above the ankle, some pants rolled up that far); faces of young men not clean-shaven; and shorts on campus (mostly BYU-I shorts – just remember to wear warm-ups).

You may wonder why the president of BYU-Idaho would spend time on these small things. Here is the reason: The dress and grooming standards are one of those small things on which big things depend. Obedience in the small things creates a spirit of obedience in all things. And obedience brings the blessings of heaven, to you individually and to the whole campus community. I hope you will help each other to be obedient in even these small, but important, things. I send my love and hope you will share this message with roommates and friends.

Some of my favorite comments were by the people that had ankle fetishes, and the comments by those wondering why some old guy was checking out the young people.

This really speaks more to the desperate need for keeping beatniks and hippies off the campus. Yeah, even the very likeness thereof!

[_SteelHead]

OK the first image and the prom queen are from BYU, the other may well be uou. The point, girls were allowed to wear some beautiful gowns, even to byu dances, back before Mormons collectively lost their minds and declared war on naked female knees and shoulders (at least for everyone who is not a BYU cheerleader).

And I have to agree with JM, the dress is a beauty.

Better version of the pic:
http://janariess.religionnews.com/files ... -Queen.jpg

[_SteelHead]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/ ... a80b90f55f

BYU homecoming queen 1960?. I think this gown is strapless to boot.

See more:
https://m.Facebook.com/media/set/?set=a ... 633&type=3

Strapless:
https://m.Facebook.com/byumagazine/phot ... &source=43

At some point in the past the church allowed for a healthier attitude about female bodies.

Now:
http://janariess.religionnews.com/2014/ ... ats-stake/

[_just me]

I think a couple of those are off the shoulder rather than strapless. Although they might be shrugs that are over the strapless dress. I couldn't tell. Either way, not g-worthy.

[_SteelHead]

Today the girls wouldn't be allowed on campus, and would be shamed by their peers for wearing such immodest gowns.

Guess whose daughters wouldn't be allowed on campus of the school bearing his name?

[_ludwigm]

...
Now:
http://janariess.religionnews.com/2014/ ... ats-stake/

From "Jane" of W. Somerset Maugham:

"Look on the left of our host."

I looked. Oddly enough the woman who sat there had by her fantastic appearance attracted my attention the moment I was ushered into the crowded drawing-room. I thought I noticed a gleam of recognition in her eye, but to the best of my belief I had never seen her before. She was not a young woman, for her hair was iron-grey; it was cut very short and clustered thickly round her well-shaped head in tight curls. She made no attempt at youth, for she was conspicuous in that gathering by using neither lipstick, rouge nor powder. Her face, not a particularly handsome one, was red and weather-beaten; but because it owed nothing to artifice had a naturalness that was very pleasing. It contrasted oddly with the whiteness of her shoulders. They were really magnificent. A woman of thirty might have been proud of them. But her dress was extraordinary. I had not seen often anything more audacious. It was cut very low, with short skirts, which were then the fashion, in black and yellow; it had almost the effect of fancy-dress and yet so became her that though on anyone else it would have been outrageous, on her it had the inevitable simplicity of nature.

( read the whole story at http://maugham.classicauthors.net/Jane/, or the theatre version at http://archive.org/stream/janecomedybas ... r_djvu.txt )

As somebody whom I don't want to name --- and who never read such works --- wrote on this site: "the summer reading list for a typical American high school student" ...