Now the greasers wore their hair down on their foreheads instead of combed back—this went for Mark and me too—and the Socs were trying to look poor. They wore old jeans and shirts with the shirttails out, just like the greasers always had because they couldn’t afford anything else. I’ll tell you one thing though: what with fringed leather vests and Levi’s with classy-store labels in them, those kids were spending as much money to look poor as they used to to look rich. It was crazy.
