<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/234c012d-4baa-480a-b7f8-442983ccac63/9BCB8A7F-5B03-49F3-912C-C85F98D23DEB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html" href="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">rusway.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html"><H3>Sock Hop Costumes from the 50's</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/rusway.typepad.com/img/108B19C8-B7CE-493D-BABD-7E027BF18B54" alt="Sock Hop Sweetie Adult Costume" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/rusway.typepad.com/img/C1E4BE1F-03A1-4282-B4D0-A72EFB1BE99A" alt="Mini Poodle Skirt (Black/Red) Adult Costume" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html"><P itxtvisited="1">A <SPAN itxtvisited="1"><SPAN><SPAN>sock</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN itxtvisited="1"><SPAN><SPAN>hop</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> is a dance, often held for teens, that first became popular in the 1950s, when the term was incidentally coined. Since dances were often held in school gymnasiums, dancers would often kick of their shoes and dance in socks so as to avoid marking up gym floors, and to get better slide in dances like the Twist, the Mashed Potatoes and others. Dances held might simply be referred to as <SPAN itxtvisited="1"><SPAN><SPAN>sock</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> hops, since the practice was so common. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/rusway.typepad.com/img/9F9D256E-7400-426B-9EF4-299C81977C6F" alt="Car Hop Girl Child Costume" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/rusway.typepad.com/img/04B38B41-2A48-468D-9E41-939250CA1419" alt="Complete Poodle Skirt Outfit (Pink & White) Adult Costume" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rusway.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/sock-hop-costumes-from-the-50s-kids-adults-child-ideas-girls-boys-costumes.html"><P>Text from WiseGeek.com</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9BCB8A7F-5B03-49F3-912C-C85F98D23DEB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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