How about a silly bit of college fashion trivia to start our day spent down the rabbit hole? Time warp anyone?

A 1941 campus poll of “Miss Average College Girl” aimed to track the sartorial habits of students from several colleges that included my alma mater, Smith College, as well as Simmons and Vassar among a random handful of other colleges around the country – some co-ed, several all “girls.”

Apparently, that year “a college girl spends 75% of her waking hours in the sweater-skirt ensemble.” And Smith girls had more sweaters and skirts than their counterparts at other schools. Vassar girls had the most shoes (had I but known); Simmons girls the most “street length” dresses.

College girls in Texas had the “fattest pocket-books, spending $768.00″ a year on clothes. (The average was $240.33). Texas girls also had more ball gowns and more boyfriends. Yes, boyfriends were considered accessories, alongside dickies and pairs of stockings! Sayeth the poll:

Boyfriends are scarce at girl’s schools unless there’s an Amherst or Harvard next door . . . but girls at the co-ed schools are always squeezing coke dates in between matinee and juke joint.

Oh yea, sounds like a typical 2010 college night out, but somehow I think the coke is different and so are the joints.