What's so funny?

Mom doesn't remember what she and her medical-school classmates found funny here. The students were exiting the clinics at Vytautas Magnus University.

After the Russians occupied Lithuania in 1944, my Mom and her Dad, Jake, fled the country. Mom resumed her studies after World War II at the University of Erlangen in the American-occupied zone of post-war Germany.

Stripes must have been the fashion for women that season:

Kaunas, Lithuania, 1942 or 1943. Here's another group of college kids that looks as good as every generation of young people. My Mom is the second from right.