1950s Fashion & Style Guide
Other shoe kinds were slip on loafers (penny loafers) and black ballet flats. That, together with carrying stockings, was a right of passage into maturity.
The greaser look isn’t full without a slicked back and greased up pompadour, duck tail, or elephant’s trunk coiffure. Women’s fashion in the early ‘50s was impressed by Dior’s “New Look” collection of 1947. He changed the stiff boxy silhouette of the war era with an hourglass shape that consisted of rounded shoulders, small waists, and full skirts. Dior’s different well-liked silhouette was the long slim sheath costume with a excessive v-neck bodice, slim skirt, and quick jacket. This hourglass shape shows up in the Unique Vintage 1950s assortment with swing attire, circle skirts and cocktail attire that seem like they walked right off the set of Mad Men.
So, naturally, match-and-flare clothes had been highly in style during the time. However, shirt clothes and …