Nostalgia Two-fer: Hoody name and bunny ears

Factual Questions
1

Two quick questions that have nothing to do with each other except that they happened in the past…

  1. What was the particular name of that multicolored hoody-like thing that was worn by grungers and stoners in the early nineties? I know it wasn’t just called a hoodie… and it is driving me and my wife bat@#^! that we can’t remember it!

  2. When in class as a youngster, we held up two fingers when we were trying to get everyone to be quiet (no, not those two fingers). Where did this ‘bunny ears’ signal come from, what was it really called, and why did we all do it and know what it meant?

Riddle me those, Dopemen.

2

We called those “hoodies” bajas around here but I have no idea if that is the “true” name.

No idea on the bunny ears but I betcha someone has one.

3

ZipperJJ you are absolutely right about the baja thing. I have no idea why that was so hard to remember. Thanks - I can sleep again.

Looking forward to hearing from anyone who remembers the bunny ears signal…

4

I have no idea about the two fingers, but I remember that in the early 70s in my brief career as a Boy Scout. During a meeting, when the scoutmaster raised those two fingers, it meant “Quiet!”

5

So the gesture is found outside of Schwegler Elementary School in Lawrence, Kansas. Good to know.

6

No cite, unfortunately, but I always heard that the two-finger signal stood for “too” (two) as in “also.”

For instance, “I’m being quiet too. You too.”

7

Since everyone knows the two fingers signify “peace,” I figure someone extrapolated it to mean “peace and quiet.”

8

I wonder if you could be talking about a snood? - th term actually refers to several different things, but one of them is a sort of loose cylinder of knitted material that can be worn like a scarf, or pulled up over the head as a hood.

9

The other term for the hooded hemp thing is jerga (pronounced HAIR-ga).

10

What? No one here has heard of the Peace Sign? When I was a kid, the teachers would even shout “Peace!” along with it if the crowd was just too rambunctious and not noticing the gesture.