Mary Poppins - Trend Setter

My daughter was watching MaryPoppins on TV last night, and I would pop in occasionally to catch a glimpse of what was happening. After all, I was seven when it came out, and I got the rare treat to go see it in the theatre.

But what caught my attention this time was Bert's (Dick Van Dyke) dance with the penguins. It was funny when I first saw it - how ridiculous he was when he stretched his pants down to mimic the penguins. Then it hit me, this was a trendsetting moment, in 1964! It took forty years to catch on, it was so far ahead of it's time, but the young folks embraced it.

Who would have thought Mary Poppins could have bridged the fashion gap as initiating the baggy pants style?