Ozzie Harriet
60 Years Later, The 50s Dress Styles Are Back, With A New Tag Line – Retro
In the fashion world, that old proverb, ‘What goes around comes around’ is true very well to our selections of avant-garde apparel. These kinds of reused fashion trends are actually very popular, they have a new moniker and a stylish price tag. Now we label this fashion ‘retro’, highly popular with teens searching for a new look not found hanging on the racks at the mall.
The 50s dress styles and accessories are not a difficult fashion topic. All that you should do is relax and luxuriate in some of the many re-runs of common 50s TV shows, such as ‘Leave it to Beaver’, and ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ to find out the latest fashions of the urban and suburban Americans of the 50s. For the more provincial takes on 50s dress or Prom dress, catch many episodes of ‘Lassie’, with June Lockhart as the farm Mom, sporting the less fussy, but nonetheless womanly, 50s styles.
Within the post second world war period, 50s fashions walked from the slimmer cuts, necessitated by rationing of numerous goods, including fabrics. The brand new fashion state of mind went towards fuller skirts, puffier sleeves, wide belts, and a lot of pleats. Patch pockets on the typical, daily 50s skirts were also large, to fit sets from nappy pins to clothespins. Huge appliqués were another unique detail of fashionable 50s dress styles (remember the Poodle skirt?) Perhaps the 40s femme fatale come-hither looks, that will enlighten the man home on leave, were normally changed by the more conservative, wholesome and functional 50s dress, better suited to the new homemaker families with her war time hero, now home for good. Even accessories skilled significant changes. Women’s handbags evolved into bigger, the better to handle those essentials which the 40s woman had no need to put away in their small, fashionable evening bags. Costume jewelry fit in nicely with the more casual 50s styling, not costing an arm and a leg, but adding a great, vivid highlight to any kind of costume or Prom dresses.
Therefore, exactly where can you locate a complete accentuate of 50s fashions? Easy. Look on classic clothing sites, Ebay and at your own local ‘antique’ clothing shops. Curiously, fashions dating back to Grandmothers’ period are now deemed radical and chic to a new era of fashionistas. For the most radical 50s clothing, include the shoes, handbags, and accessories which were put on in older times. With but a humble investment, you will be the star of the 50s dress styles, reincarnated with great panache for this moment in time. Retro haute couture, yes.
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