1950s Style - What Women Wore in 1950s America

Join me as we take a step back in time to the 1950s - the era of hourglass figures and feminine style. In this video, we will be exploring the world of 1950s women's fashion, with a focus on the iconic dresses and skirts that defined the decade.
From the full-skirted swing dress and poodle skirt to the form-fitting pencil skirt, we'll take a look at the styles that were all the rage in the 1950s. We'll also talk about the use of waist-cinching, accessories, gloves & bags, innovative fabrics, and the timeless elegance that was 1950s fashion.
Please enjoy this video of women's fashions in the 1950s.
Most of these images are simply candid photos of life in the 1950s. Some are original color prints, and the rest have been colorized.
Thanks for watching - I hope you enjoy!
#1950s , #nostalgia , #lifeinamerica

[@sooz9433]

I miss those days. Back then we wore dresses everyday and it was no inconvenience. We were so lucky to have such a sweet variety of dresses and skirts and blouses. I miss the modesty of those days and the femininity. Just one person's opinion.

[@a.b.creator]

We could always bring it back 😊

[@Nina-xo555]

People still dress like this..

[@Mmhashbrowns]

@@Nina-xo555not alot of people tho

[@eliciaeldridge3452]

I am in my early 30s but I often wish I could dress more formal sometimes without being considered weird or out of place.

[@irishman5562]

So true.....we had Ladies then. Today girls are not well kept they wear rag jeans and skin tight tops that shows all the fat rolls. Totally different world today. Sad to see...

[@vintagelover6]

This is why I dress vintage 50's everyday! No other era is so iconic and beautiful!

[@Dr.Pepper001]

3:45 I love the way the women's boobs stood straight out instead of sagging down. Bras must have been lined with metal.

[@mchapman132]

I love the ‘30’s fashions. Very feminine.

[@catherineblack2970]

Any decade BEFORE the 50s were HIGH ELEGANCE. After the 1960s everything went SOUTH. Now look at us.

[@kathleenking47]

1948-1963 they need to bring it back

[@indirachhiba3247]

When you think about it, the past decades of fashion has made comebacks, but modified a little for the present day. This includes shoes and hairstyles - I’ve observed mens hairstyles have a reminiscent of the early 20thC to the 1950s

[@louislamonte334]

All things considered I would go back to the 1950s in a heartbeat!

[@valeriekelly315]

I got married in 1959 at the age of twenty - My dress was made of chantilly lace, and was full skirted, and ballerina length. I had 5 bridesmaids who wore polka dotted full skirts also. We all thought we were "The bees knees " Such wonderful days 👗x

[@dianakidd4219]

I bet you looked gorgeous! That’s sounds beautiful

[@mchapman132]

Were their dresses “dotted Swiss?” That was such a popular fabric then. I had a gorgeous dress made out of dotted Swiss.

[@reneetherese1963]

Ahhh. . . .sounds fabulous!!

[@valeriekelly315]

No, not dotted swiss, do remember how pretty that material was. It was a floaty ivory colour with lilac spots - they looked beautiful { only my sister, who was chief bridesmade and me left now }x @@mchapman132

[@mchapman132]

@@valeriekelly315 - The dress sounds fabulous. My grandchildren made fun of my high school prom dress from an old photo and the styles of the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s. I thought it was beautiful. It was pale blue, full skirt, satin midriff, princess neckline. Very feminine. My second wedding dress full skirt, was tea length or ballroom length some said. I wish those styles would come back.

[@deborahrunnells8222]

Beautiful dresses Beautiful women beautiful era

[@luzesquivel2660]

About, 20 years ago, or so. I was in Calxico, Just across the border from Mexicali. I saw a girl, 19 year or so , wearing a dress just like that era. Flat black shoes. I just could take my eyes off of her." She looked so feminine, conservative and.. elegant." It was a pastel printed yellow color." "Oh, those old times." Gone, but never forgoten." "sigh"

[@mairim4578]

So glad I belong to that generation,beauty and class.

[@reneetherese1963]

Me too! And on the subject of clothes, any woman of that era remembers what "It's snowing down south" means! 🙂

[@sburris65]

I look at my mom's pictures and wished she had saved some of her dresses. Clothes then were gorgeous. And 70 years later, many looks from that era have never gone out of style.

[@artistsingerwriterproducer8288]

Right

[@nancysrios]

I wish we could go back to beautiful styles again!

[@hawkeyeten2450]

Who says we can't? I say a movement should start.

[@1victor1]

@@hawkeyeten2450what are we waiting for?.. to continue going down in decadence these days ? Let’s get started

[@joysoul4089]

I remember they also wore gloves for many occasions, short white gloves. My mother even dressed me in these full skirts with petticoats and white gloves and hats too.

[@wotawanancy3249]

Mine too

[@reneetherese1963]

Yes I remember those pretty white gloves! We even wore them in summer but then they were made of a delicate openwork mesh fabric.

[@starababa1985]

As a little girl, I had six pairs of white cotton gloves in my top dresser drawer. Bleached and ironed, they went everywhere, from church to the downtown bus. I never lost one. My mother would have had a fit, we were so careful about our clothes.

[@joysoul4089]

@@starababa1985 oh, I vaguely remember cotton gloves, yes. Now that you mention it.

[@mchapman132]

When I graduated and went to secretarial school, we were taught how to dress for a job interview. Hat and gloves. When gloves were taken off, fold them in half, and hold the end with the fingers so the cuffed end showed. “don’t hold them like a bouquet of dead flowers”. We were taught how to sit properly too. This was 1965, NYC.

[@G.G.8GG]

Thanks for the memories! All true, except pencil skirts were not regarded as more formal. They were frequently worn to school and we just called them straight skirts. They were usually a nice wool and went well with a blouse with the collar turned up. Add a little peroxided streak in your bangs and you were cool!

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

Pencil skirt is a 1980’s term. Different cut. The guy didn’t do his research.

[@plousia]

Nice, I just found a lovely 1950s black wool straight skirt in a thrift store. Doesn't fit me so it's now for sale. What a lovely style.

[@cbass2755]

Bring back these dresses….so pretty and fun to wear! I’d put on my circle skirt and immediately start to twirl!!

[@alandickerson3379]

I was born in 1950 and really miss these beautiful styles!!

[@fritzsmith3296]

@Alan Dickerson: "really miss... styles" or the memories? I was born in the mid-40's. I miss the 50's but not the styles. I really love the styles of how women dress today. Especially casual like dungarees. Whover made women were dresses (thousands of years ago) were more concerned about reproduction than style.

[@marynadononeill]

I agree the styles were much better. Women look better in dresses. The beauty and femininity shine forth. Men also looked better with self respect and poise. People look sloppy and undignified today.

[@pistoffpussycat5778]

@@fritzsmith3296 what's wrong with that?

[@aleejones7508]

I was born in the forties, I don't

[@kathleenking47]

You hot stuck in hippie era 😋

[@edwardgabriel5281]

I'm 94 and and remember weaing knicker pants and high shoes.

[@A2D4]

When I was in 9th grade (1963) in Home Ec class we had to make a dress and model it at the Mothers Tea in the Spring, which was a pretty big deal. I still remember the dress I made which was blue pique cotton. It had a self belt and A-line skirt. Wish I’d saved it.... A bittersweet memory was that my mom had died the Christmas before and my sweet dad showed up at that Mothers Tea to support me, as I had no mom. He was the only dad there and I was NOT embarrassed, as one would assume I would be. I got a poodle skirt for my 10th birthday. It was royal blue. I loved crinolines and remember wearing them in grade school but no one wore them in high school, at least not where I lived. They were so feminine and fun.

[@rongendron8705]

My mom died on March 9th, 1963 at 44 of cancer, when I was 16, so I can relate to this!

[@A2D4]

@@rongendron8705 44 is WAY too young to die & all the more difficult for a child at a crucial age. I was 15..... (Actually when it comes to our dear moms, any age is crucial I guess). I’m sorry for your loss. My mom was 51 but no illness or preparation for her death, so all the more of a shock. But somehow we carry on. 🙂

[@mchapman132]

Bobbi, I was in the 11th grade in ‘63, we didn’t have mother daughter events, but we did have father daughter dances and dinners. My dad never took me to any of them. It hurt. There were girls who had lost their dad, as you lost your mom, but an older brother or uncle would attend. I never knew why my dad wouldn’t go. I was 44 when he died, and found out he didn’t go to the dances because he didn’t own a suit and didn’t have the money to buy one. I felt very bad for feeling as I did for so long. Losing a parent hurts, no matter how old you are, but tough when you’re still a kid. Thank you for sharing your story. You had a wonderful dad.

[@mchapman132]

@@rongendron8705 - That’s too young to die. Very sorry for your loss. 🙏🏻

[@A2D4]

@@mchapman132 Thank you, mchapman132, for your story and kind words. Isn’t it amazing how sometimes only with revelations and/or the wisdom of age, we finally truly get to know who our parents were. Hopefully there are good memories, though, if it’s too late to talk things over with them. I hope you’ve forgiven yourself for assumptions that were not really your fault. We all have regrets, but owe it to ourselves to remember we’re only human, not perfect.

[@shorecat5530]

I remember seeing photos of my mom and my aunts wearing similar styles. I always thought they looked beautiful. I love how an entire outfit was well thought out, from shoes to gloves and hats.

[@dinahnicest6525]

I was born in 1954. As a kid, aunts and friends kept me well supplied with these dresses for playing dress-up. I wish I could have kept them long enough to grow into them.

[@Antoinette1205]

I was born August 1954

[@dinahnicest6525]

@@Antoinette1205 Me too! The 3rd.

[@margaretdonogriche3195]

1954 the year I got married. Beautiful clothes, now everything to casual.

[@donnaferrier101]

My sister was in high school in the 50’s. She always looked so adorable! I remember her prom dress, it was gorgeous & she looked beautiful! She is still beautiful to me!♥️♥️

[@donnalehman6805]

Best decade ever for women's fashion.

[@elviradonaghy6425]

Women looked classy!

[@johnsarkissian5519]

100%!

[@johnsarkissian5519]

@@elviradonaghy6425 And so did men!

[@elviradonaghy6425]

@@johnsarkissian5519 yes they did and men were men and proud of it!

[@annethomson4920]

I love 30s 49s and 50s . So elegant

[@Dina52328]

No obesity, piercings or tattoos. I remember that as a young lady, in the mid 1960’s, my friends and I used to get all dressed up when going out to dance. How I miss those wonderful, carefree days. “🎶Those we’re the days my friend 🎶 we thought they’d never end 🎶 . . . “

[@petegregory517]

We were afraid to talk to guys with tattoos.

[@candykane4271]

We can testify that all these things that are fads in 2023 will be come History…it like our little secret. I miss gloves! And Easter Hats!

[@candykane4271]

@@petegregory517 My dad had Tattoo from Korea skulls and knives and he said they get so ugly as you age….he felt sorry for all the women getting tattoos so young. Tattoos at 70-90 look wiggly and tacky.

[@johnsarkissian5519]

Ah, the 1950s! The last ever decade in human history where fashion meant beauty and elegance for both women and men.

[@ongyiyi2401]

I would also add the 60's personally, I just liked the aesthetic of that decade such as the hippie and the mod etc

[@classicmoviesvault]

You are right great comment

[@trishcook1857]

A very elegant time period for fashion

[@nelsonphilip4520]

Always nice to take a trip back in time. Thanks for posting this.

[@diankreczmer6595]

I am 85, I wore pencil skirts, called straight skirts, to the office, so yes, they were formal sort of, worn with long sleeve blouse. The sheath was pretty dressy, although I had several. Some for winter were long sleeve and wool. In summer, I wore full skirted dresses and even crinoline slips under if you wanted the skirt to be even fuller. Gloves, you bet and hats too.

[@aliciapilotta5913]

I dress 1940s to early 50s every day.. Beautiful style!

[@AndySaenz]

Oh, wow, women looked so beautiful back then! This is much more attractive than today’s fashion trends. I wish they would still dress like this. 😍❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@artistsingerwriterproducer8288]

Regards from Monaco, we have PRETTY MODE here sometimes such style

[@MacaylaVacation]

I love the 1950s I am an teen but I love it I love where people actually worked on their look and the dresses the most cutest thing ever

[@annabrown7302]

NO PURPLE HAIR OR GREEN HAIR NO TATTOOS JUST DECENT BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

I absolutely love the way they dressed back then. I used to dress like that in the 80s as a tween and teen. They should have left fashion classy instead of the trashy mess they have now.

[@keithbrown8814]

People are lazy today...looking good, classy ang elegant takes effort!!

[@louislamonte334]

Absolutely!!

[@georgew.5639]

My mom looked just like these ladies back then. 😊

[@kat35lulu88]

Mine too!!!😊

[@kimsouvertjis5882]

So did my mum, so pretty ..she always dressed beautifully and my grandmother made a lot of our clothes

[@pinkiesue849]

@@kimsouvertjis5882 what a wonderful memory!

[@randomvintagefilm273]

I wouldn't say the women of the 50's were "breaking free of the conservative styles of the past". The 1950's was one of THE most conservative decades in fashion. Compared to the 1920's Flapper girls, the 50's were both feminine and conservative.

[@rongendron8705]

I was born in 1946 & agree that the 1950's was the last decade of conservative styles!

[@dreambuilder2756]

I think there was an elegance in the fifties. Loved the glamour.

[@mchapman132]

My maternal grandmother in London, was a fashion model in the late teens early ‘20’s….flapper styles. She was cute….all 5 feet of her. 💕

[@maroussia555]

I was thinking the same thing! A lot of people were disappointed when the 50s silhouette came in fashion as it was considered as a step back practicability wise for woman seeing as it is reminiscent to the Victorian silhouette. The 30s and 40s silhouette was more practical.

[@johnb7499]

Conservative isn't how you describe any kind of historical fashion. It was about the fashionable silhouette and what undergarments you needed to achieve it. The 1950s style came from Christian Dior's new look in 1947. Women didn't consider what they were wearing then as conservative

[@layla350]

pure elegance...........

[@kathrynkneeland7179]

I was born in 1950. My mother was slim and gorgeous with long dark brown hair. She wore only tailored clothes. Sheaths, and pencil skirts. She owned a dress shop, all dress were tailored. Not everyone wire full skirts.

[@maryreilly5092]

I bet your Dear Mom WAS absolutely gorgeous! I also bet that her customers could afford buying tailored clothing from her shop. I have an odd shaped figure, (thank you, Dad's side of the family), and I checked into custom tailored clothes for myself. It's not hundreds of dollars these days hut Thousands of dollars for a custom tailored wardrobe! So I had to go back to my current system, buy nice clothing 1 or 2 sizes larger than go to an alterations shop to have them adjusted for me.

[@andythompson6874]

The clothes both women and men wore in the 1950's were classic, just like the cars. The early 60's were also very stylish. If you look at clothes worn by Lady Bird Johnson and other women of the late 60's era, they too were fashionable in their own way. There are videos you can watch on You Tube where one of Richard Nixon's daughters was married at the White House in the early 70's, I believe it was. Though the clothes worn by many of the guests were far different than the 1950's, they were "Mod" and very stylish. However, once the mid 70's hit, everything seemed to slide into ????? Exactly what you can call it, I'm not sure. Just today, I saw news footage of a family receiving a military medal in honor of their late relative who served in the military. The family were all wearing t-shits and jeans, though, in their defense, the t-shirts were all in formal black.

[@serahloeffelroberts9901]

I love this period because it flatters my figure.

[@annwornell7510]

I started work in 1958 in London, the clothes were so great. Loved all the celebrities looking so chic. Wanted to dress like them who'dhave thought girls would now be happy in ripped jeans!.

[@rafiahmed7355]

So elegant. When I was student at University in Michigan, I used to go to a restaurant for lunch. I still remember, there was a poster on wall. It read, “ when sex was dirty, air was clean”. Now that, I think, it was so true😢

[@trentb8674]

Love the 50’s

[@yvonneprimeau5475]

A lot of crinolines were worn in the 1950’s. It’s what made the skirts stand out.

[@ammo8713]

"PUSH-UP BRAS DIDN'T HURT EITHER....❤🤣

[@matadorelin]

Outstanding images! Going down that Time Machine once more.

[@TheHistoryLounge]

Thanks, @matadorelin! Me too!

[@fayemillet137]

I loved the 50s, beautiful styles in clothing, lots of fun crinoline under the dresses.

[@liannebedard5521]

The text leaves out a big factor in those skirts…the crinolines…heavily structured underskirts designed to add a pouf look. My best friend, a style leader, owned a maroon taffeta one that was attractive enough to be worn alone..

[@luzesquivel2660]

Oh, you are so correct." Crinolines were part of the whole thing. "

[@jamellfoster6029]

I LOVE the dress style of the 1950s and 60s. My Mom was born in 1951 and she showed me pics of her as a kid & teenager. She looked so glamorous...

[@nicolasrichard3737]

I remember my mother dressed in polka dots dress.

[@50pinkies67]

I begged my mom for a poodle skirt but she said I was too young. Lol I was 6 or 7 at the time. They were to die for. 😂

[@mariamariscal5616]

Wow !! Que bien vestía la gente en esa época

[@7spiritualcompass706]

Wow. Warm memories. The style has its own uniqueness. I remember those gloves...those gloves went with you everywhere.

[@sawboneiomc8809]

Women were just better looking then....they had mystic.

[@jercasgav]

You can look like that nowadays too, you just have to dress nicer. I make sure to wear dresses all the time (because I think they are so much more comfortable than pants and they look so nice), and it makes a world of difference in how you feel about yourself to just dress a little bit nicer. It is a mindset people have today that these things don't matter, but they really do. Cultivating beauty in the environment around you and in yourself personally is a worthwhile endeavor. Not in a superficial way, in an uplifting sort of way. Everything has its own beauty you can bring out in it.

[@vintagelover6]

@@jercasgav exactly! I dress vintage 50s everyday!! Love it!

[@mkeogh76]

Being nicely dressed, well-groomed, and height-and-weight proportionate can do wonders for both men's and women's appearances. What was once just plain common-sense has been seemingly tossed aside within the last 20 years. The obesity epidemic and slob culture have 21st century Americans looking awful. And things are not going to get better unless Big Pharma invents an anti-obesity pill and the children of the Millennials/Zoomers are grossed-out by their parents' stretched and faded-out tats.

[@bullballsallday]

Obesity and morbid obesity was virtually nonexistent back then. If you wanted to see someon weighing over 300 pounds, or people covered in tattoos and piercings, you had to visit a freakshow at a circus.

[@dittohead7044]

My grandfather said the same thing. The less clothing a woman wore took the mystique away

[@sallycrager6861]

designers need to bring these back

[@liannebedard5521]

Why? Nice nostalgia…but no..,

[@eeeccc3562]

I doubt today s designers have what it takes to understand classy and feminine. Let them keep calling their work fashion and people with good taste keep avoiding it.

[@ronaldmiller673]

Great old days my Parents loved these days the clothes my Father loved the cars and so do ..I the music 🎵🎶🎶 was

[@ronaldmiller673]

Was the Hop... Great video.. Please Join me on my computer 🖥️ also,, Your in......

[@coashddjj294]

The clothing was simple and beautiful. The women were so naturally pretty, without all the fake eyelashes, nails, heavy make-up and botox. It was a better quality of life back then because people cared. They don't care about anything today. It's do whatever you want.

[@yeonake]

Yes!

[@rufust.firefly4890]

I was born in 53, but I remember as a tyke my mother and aunts wore dresses when they left the house. The white gloves and hats. I had two aunts who I never saw in pants until they were in their 90s.

[@matrox]

I was around in the late 50s. The 50s and 60s were the most memorable times of my life. America was not at all perfect but a hell of a lot better than the sh!thole we call America today. Back then the criminals stayed in the shadows. Today the criminals are in your face with full support of the FBI/DOJ and the White House.

[@louislamonte334]

ABSOLUTELY!!

[@darrelllancaster9554]

I remember my sister's wearing, "can-cans" and petticoats. My Mom & Grandmother wearing hats with veils. Long gloves, clip-on earrings. And my Dad was always dressed up for church, or our school functions. By-gone days. ⏳

[@pdatnc]

Yes. People wire their best to fly too. Now shorts and flip flops are good everywhere.

[@muffassa6739]

I was born in 1951 this brings back a lot of memories my oldest sister looked beautiful in her clothes. We wore our dress with gloves, hats and always a girdle . But when the 60s came around we were free.

[@lesliemergenthal75]

I wish we could do it again. Ladies look so lovely. I'd die for circle skirt.

[@ravenmeyer3740]

You can make one and wear it. Do it on a dropped yoke. If you are thin enough you can wear your top tucked in, if your tummy protrudes, wear a longer type of tunic that you made that skims over your midsection. Also you can make a circle skirt out of two half circles. Borders on circle skirts can be challenging becomes all it is, is a bias cut full skirt. Oh, and they can stretch because they are cut on the bias. Hope this helps.

[@lesliemergenthal75]

@@ravenmeyer3740 I don’t sew. I watch the sewing videos but I’m not that clever. I love that retro style. My mom rocked it.

[@tiredmommyx4]

I buy my 1950's reproduction dresses on Amazon. Crinolines,, wide elastic belts,, and sometimes shoes are also from Amazon. It may not be TRUE or authentic vintage but it's within my small budget and it makes me happy! I get a lot of compliments when I go out!

[@lesliemergenthal75]

@@tiredmommyx4 im gonna check that out. I would love to find my size.

[@tiredmommyx4]

On Amazon look for "1950's vintage fit & flare dresses:" for the circle skirts. That's the only kind of dress I like, lol. My search filters are Prime, 4 stars and up, usually under $40 per dress. GownTown is my favorite brand because it's stretchy material, nice deep side-seam POCKETS, and lots of solids and patterns.. They get high marks on their customer reviews too! Let me know if you want any help/advice/whatever! I hope you find a lot of dresses to put on your 1950's Wish List!

[@Teenibash1969]

My late mother was a young woman in the 50’s. I’ve saw photographs of her wearing some beautiful dresses. Stunning.

[@joeylocognato2198]

Really cool, it's fascinating stuff. A snapshot in time !

[@LydiaStarz]

Born in 1960 I miss how well people represented themselves! Just watch American Bandstand and see all the guys in suits just to go dance on TV! I think we took the "Make Your Own Kind of Music" a little to far...now we are not elegant or sharp anymore.

[@kennethj1956]

There was a strict dress code for those TV shows; my brother and sister went to Shindig, Hugo a-go-go, and American bandstand. My brother got kicked out for sticking out his tongue.

[@LydiaStarz]

@@kennethj1956 Yes I am not surprised. The 50s/60s was all about "Appearances". Make it look wholesome and good or squash it. That was the downside to those times. As kids we were forced to look 'decent', act 'moral' and be damned if we did not comply! Consequences! I think somewhere in the middle of compliance/non-compliance is what I look back and remember. But truly, it was very hard to grow up then. My Dad was a Marine who used his belt. You bet I turned out "decent". But under the appearance was a lot of useless guilt and fear! Maybe that's why I did drugs in the 70s and left home at 19 and stayed gone 40 yrs!

[@kennethj1956]

@@LydiaStarz Yeah there was a 1960s-70s backlash to the 'uptight appearance' of decency and morality when it was all just a facade. My Dad was a High School teacher, both my parents grew up in the depression, but they changed with the times as they cast off unnecessary dogmas and nonsensical societal rules. My parents were smart, curious and really nice. I couldn't have had better parents. So thankful

[@aleejones7508]

Funny, That's just what my Great Aunts said about the fifties styles

[@lauriesmith3443]

What! You didn't enjoy this years Grammy's? 🤪

[@lynnet2715]

Love the automobiles 🚘 The boys danced too.

[@alexandrasmith7682]

My Grandmother was a fully trained tailoress. She wouldn't be seen outside the house without matching shoes and handbag, a brooch, and lipstick. It was important to accessorize correctly! My mother's first marriage was in 1958 - she had a full silk ballerina dress. She said it was tightly boned in order to get the correct shape. At 80, she was still wearing a corset because that was what she knew. To this day, I still wear a garter belt and stockings because that was the age I grew up in!

[@jackjohnsen8506]

You are my kind of woman!...love the old garter belts...

[@alexandrasmith7682]

They are harder to find these days ..... Most of mine are part of sets from Lise Charmel or Aubade 😊

[@allrightyougotit]

Lovely photos, thanks for sharing !

[@jennaross6654]

So classy and elegant.

[@wotawanancy3249]

Loved those clothes. We looked like ladies. Wish they would come back.

[@beatrizrobinson6481]

Nothing like fashion from the past!!! Those dresses, WOW!!! Greeting from Arizona.

[@HeatherB81]

I have been looking for a channel that posts videos like this!! Yay!! Please post more about the 40s/50s/60s everyday life!! I love it and it makes me feel nostalgic, even though I wasn’t born until the 80’s 😂

[@dianaharvey7534]

Gotta love the 50s style of fashion

[@marva2738]

I was born in 1950, a very stylish era. We worn hats and gloves also, and often went shopping well dressed.

[@mercoid]

Great change in the world of fashion!!!

[@ammo8713]

"SADDLE SHOES" WERE YUCK!

[@staffanlindstrom576]

Wonderful.

[@edward28051989]

Every woman was beauty and elegant

[@larrykrise3609]

the good old days.the 50,s were the best yrs amercia ever saw.wont never see them again

[@mercoid]

Life in general, for those in the middle class, will never be better than then. It was almost as bad to be poor then as it is now, but now the outlook isn’t particularly bright for anybody.

[@miguelmouta5372]

@@mercoid “We are probably living the Golden Age of Civilization” ( Aldous Huxley, at UCLA, 1957).

[@saminaneen]

@@mercoid I remember when boys were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and kids did not keep Fentanyl, in their medicine cabinets, and did not smoke banana peels, and eat Tide Pods, for fun, like young people today

[@martymasden2737]

What fun! I was born in the 1950s.😉👍💕✌

[@1cynanne]

This type of fashion made women more feminine looking and elegant.

[@patriciadunn9225]

This is so freaky! This kind of thing, although really interesting, is not normally my "thing." I found myself enjoying the clothing and thinking about my sister, Ann who died at age eighteen when I was two in 1959.. I grew up knowing only this one photo of her with her friend - I think her name was Marlene or Arlene... In 2019 my home burned to the ground taking everything I owned with it, including family photos. Lo' and behold - at 6:53 on this video - there is the photo of my sister (Ann on left, M-Arlene on right.) If that's not a freaky thing, I don't know what is!

[@1MizzDominguez]

Beautiful pictures, dresses, ladies!❤

[@TheHistoryLounge]

I agree!

[@dracandros]

Bring back 50s styles ✨

[@alexjames1397]

Yes please. I truly don't understand modern day fashion.

[@joycejohnson7640]

My mother used to starch my crinoline so I could have the flair to my skirts and dresses. We didn't have waist cinches, they were just belts on the skirts or dresses. Women were much thinner back then because our mothers cooked good food. We didn't eat out and have all of the junk foods that we have today.

[@ravenmeyer3740]

Also we weren’t allowed to watch TV all day and we didn’t have cell phones and computers. We used to ride bikes and we ha a lot of areas to play in. My favorite game was Annie Annie over. That’s where you would throw the ball over the roof of your house and the other person would try to catch it and throw it back over. Remember exploring ponds with tadpoles. Now they have been bulldozed for more housing and look the same apartment complexes.

[@keithbrown8814]

​@@ravenmeyer3740 at my aunt and uncle's home...absolutely no TV til evening...early, mid 1970s...

[@keithbrown8814]

No free refills on SUPER sweet soda pop in jumbo size cups.......very small cups and only 1 serving...probably around 6 or 7 ounces!!!!

[@jackjohnsen8506]

I was back there, and you are right, VERY few Fat women, and every girl was fit...

[@maryfinch9331]

They forgot to mention how we used to wear a lot of slips to make the skirts look full does the good old days before we lost our innocence❤

[@jackjohnsen8506]

I walked home my girl friend from school, and said, "are you getting fat?' she said NO, I'm wearing six petticoats!" that is what they were called In California....

[@midnightchannel7759]

Dresses in the 1950s were all ONE THING: a reaction to the conservation of the WWII years of the 40s. Everything was over the top (look at the cars!), and as women had to conserve during the war, they designers used yards and yards of fabric in these wasp-waisted styles in the 50s, and the cut was much lower, all the designers went to the shin. (According to my mother who was in her thirties at the time)

[@maureenmckenna5220]

The dresses were beautiful, as was the fabric. But, what comes to my mind is the fact that girls were allowed to be little girls until they were 12 or so and dressed accordingly, like a little girl. Teen age years meant a change of style, and little girl dresses were put away. Today, there is little time to be a little girl

[@christinebutler7630]

They're getting periods at 8, dating at 10 and having $-x at 12.

[@rosannacellini2158]

The women dressed beautiful in the fifties. It's my favorite era for fashion. Special affairs meant, evening gowns and tuxedos. Even loved their summer dresses and women were more built, and not skeletal looking. My dad grew up mostly in that era. He said it was the best time for him.

[@ethelrizarri2614]

OMG. I had several of this kind of dresses . Under skirt is the petticoat, beautiful and it requires a lot of materials around 3 meters to 4 meters and flaring. I told my mother to embroider then with beautiful flowers otherwise i will not wear them . Hahaha

[@sophiabelfont4850]

Thank you very much History Lounge to let us see how beautiful dressed American women.

[@bonniem3754]

My mom was very elegant and loved to dress, but she also wore pants and “peddle pushers” quite often.

[@luzesquivel2660]

Those pedal pushers, were also called "CAPRIS" And..were very well cut, tailored I would say. Not the sloppy late fashion."

[@bonniem3754]

@@luzesquivel2660 Now they’re called Capris, but in the 50’s and 60’s they were called Peddle Pushers. BTW, not all women looked and dressed well back in the day. Some of my neighbors wore a “mu-mu” or robe all day with curlers in their hair….even when driving their kids to and from school

[@luzesquivel2660]

@@bonniem3754 Oh, you still see women, in pajamas. and..sleepers in the Market, or..taking the children to school. They look so bad kept."

[@luzesquivel2660]

@@bonniem3754 No. I was one of them, but I did my best." May our good Lord be with you at all times."

[@luzesquivel2660]

@@bonniem3754 Actually, I was a teen on days. did my very best but..I think I was not that attractive to say the least.I was told I was but..did NOT believe it." Oh well. have a blessed day. "

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Your BEST VIDEO Y E T !!

[@carolemiller6854]

Wish those styles would come back.

[@carolemiller6854]

Brings back a lot of memories. Loved those styles.

[@AMW992]

Does anyone else remember blow up petticoats?

[@classiclife7204]

My mom, a teen in the 50s, remembers the pencil skirts with fondness, but did NOT care for the flouncy-bouncy, swirly-twirly skirts that mostly dominated. She might have a point: that style never really came back. I'd wager a lot of ladies were abjectly waiting for the 60s to get started. My mom certainly loved Jackie Kennedy's look.

[@tsugima6317]

There might be a reason....... the crinoline petticoats you wore under those twirly skirts and dresses were very uncomfortable. They could be heavily starched, and itchy and scratchy. My mom always said when I complained "Beauty must suffer."

[@classiclife7204]

@@tsugima6317 Indeed!

[@robbiewinfrey9636]

Oh those were the good old days let me tell you, I miss those days so much, I wish I could hop in a time machine and go back. Everything was so so different, then in the twenty-first century we live in now that I can't stand.

[@luzesquivel2660]

I know what you mean."

[@lynndupree1205]

Momma dressed me in dresses with a cinched waist, with a big bow tied in the back. Mary Janes and white fold-over socks with lace trim. On Sunday she added a little hat, tiny handbag, and white gloves. She brushed my hair and fixed it in a deep side part held with a barrette. I couldn't wait to grow up, but I look back to 1958 with such fond memories! Edit: Don't forget the crinoline slip underneath! I still remember the sound it made. And big girls wore a cone shaped, pointed bra. 😊

[@lizzapaolia959]

You're KZbin channel is fantastic. Copied by some others on KZbin but not near as good 😊 Thank you so much for sharing your videos. God bless 🙏

[@classicmoviesvault]

The hour glass figure is very interesting for dresses. Thank you for doing the research on this topic and making this great video

[@jrgnc1]

Forgot to mention the bullet bra.

[@dittohead7044]

Such a great era. And more black intact families were the norm. The future isn’t always better

[@carolsmith5151]

I was a kid in the '50's who attended Catholic school. Uniforms were required to be worn to class -- navy blue jumpers with white blouses, saddle shoes with white socks. The nuns dictated fashion. On weekends, I lived in my poodle skirt!!!

[@judiemjacobson4613]

I was a teenager in the 50s. You forgot the layers of start crinolines off and dyed different colors with food coloring. And starched with Argo starch

[@CADETracey-vc3nn]

Beautiful Dresses 👗CLASS

[@hikerx9366]

Color Color Color.....it's everywhere on the clothing the cars the lifestyle. I think that's the way it should be. Not liking much about the way things are today. Thanks HL your videos are No. 1.

[@kennethj1956]

Actually the 1950s was known for it's pastels and white blouses & shirts.

[@pistoffpussycat5778]

How old are you? Just curious

[@ImCarolB]

Oh, this brings back all those childhood memories of my mother. She had an hourglass figure that suited the shirtwaist dresses she always wore. I, however, inherited my dad's beanpole physique and could never wear anything with a waist. Perfect for the 1960s shift dresses!