1950s fashion women

1950’s Brief history of fashion in pictures.

A look back at the era of elegance.

Created by illustrator Duane Bryers (1911-2012), Hilda was a girl who was definitely not shy of her plump body. She was one of the very few plus-size pin-up queens to grace the pages of American calendars from the 1950s up until the early 1980s and achieved moderate notoriety in the 1960s. This pin-up girl was almost forgotten until someone recently dug up her calendars from the archives and collective memories of Americans.

This week I'm mainly obsessing (and I mean obsessing) over novelty prints, playsuits and mix-and-match holiday wardrobes. I absolutely love the idea of packaged "wardrobes" of interchangeable, co-ordinated pieces, and it seems they were quite the thing in the early 50s.

1957 Sears Fall Winter Catalog, Page 8

1950s fashion advertisement | Do you want to look like a pinup star living in the modern world? Here are some 1950s women's fashion looks to reinvent today!

What did women wear in the 1950s? Attending Hot August Nights, the largest classic car show in the west, has inspired me to take a look at 1950s fashion for women. My husband and I usually dress up in vintage or repro '50s clothes before going out to see all the cars. Sadly, not very