Fashion in the 1950's

[@gloriinher40s]

1940's and 50's are my favorite era for fashion ever. The women were beautiful and feminine. Even the "lowly" housewife looked like a million bucks.

[@daylacro9733]

Butter Pecan Rican true

[@arturojaime3836]

Same!

[@julieerin115]

I think the 50s is my favorite decade for ladies' fashion and even up to the JFK years, but then the fashion started by the mid-60s (during the start of the 'Nam era) with those psychedelic prints, shades of neon and orange, alien sunglasses, those preschool dresses, colored preschooler tights...

[@cance7984]

A much more elegant and simpler time compared to today.

[@hellothere9730]

But with more racism.

[@cance7984]

ᔕTᖇᗩᗯᗷEᖇᖇY ᑭᗩᑎᑕᗩKEᔕ Sadly, I agree.

[@arturojaime3836]

"LIL TaY" Kpop... Theories- All that stuff

[@CrashingCrockery]

WHY CAN'T IT ALL BE LIKE THIS AGAIN. Big hair, gloves, cool handbags, HATS, sparkly gowns, and high heels? It will never be again, it was all so WONDERFUL (but of course I was not alive then and having to suffer in hourglass waistlines, side zippers, and hair-spray residue blending into my foundation. But oh, what a world, if ONLY it would all come back, not just parts, but the WHOLE LOOK. Dang.

[@daylacro9733]

CrashingCrockery 80s destroyed generation, rock beats fancy. But your right. And you forgot to mention if you compare there looks from this present it's very different even a housmaid in 50s looks like a million bucks because of there beauty

[@michaelmcanulty4970]

Yes this was us in the 50s, and 60s, we where smart, and feminine we cared about how we looked , even our hair was well groomed, very different to today, with what l call the scruffy look.

[@kachingwohoo]

what a charming little video!

[@MsMoopy2]

I want the 50s fashion back!!! I love it!!!!!!

[@chavrons1]

Always a good song to sing along with.

[@dibbie67]

I just LOVE the 1950's. I own a pair of saddle shoes, a crinoline, a poodle skirt, cat-eye glasses and 2 fifties style dresses and I plan on buying MORE! I do wear fiftie's inspired clothing quite often and people just LOVE it and always comment on my outfits. I've even been called 'fifties girl'. Thanks for posting this! :P

[@Wutwut1n1]

As long as people never have respect for themselves, It doesn't equate to as much as it could if they respect others, or respect their dresses, lawns, etc.

[@k0rc]

Imagine... not a single photo was "Photoshopped" to create a perfect image!

[@Michelle-je9jk]

i was born in a wrong era i love 50s-90s it's so simple and pretty

[@HelloHello-js6dm]

Lmao nah hun you were born in the right one, many people arent able to have the luxury you have today .to listen to all the old songs and buy vintage beautiful dresses without dealing with the hardships of the time . you can appreciate their clothes but living at that time was tough.

[@HelloHello-js6dm]

Just learn to appreciate it from the safer time period were at

[@TheBrendaWenda]

This is so ADORABLE!

[@ebonygoddess1000]

i find most of the dress in this video are really beautiful. i'm 22, and i may not know anything about the 50s, except for the fashion, classy, elegant, sophisticated, etc. compared to the fashion that we have now.

[@MiSs215Live]

i love the 50s fashion!

[@daylacro9733]

MiSs215Live and there beauty they look much beautiful than this women

[@equilibrium0994]

@friscolobo i completely agree with your stating that people were more optimistic about the future because people really thought the future was bright and they seem to have thought it would bring endless possibilities.

[@coldplaychica]

i am really starting to love this type of fashion! i started liking it when i saw the recent version of Grey Gardens with Drew Barrymore!! but i really love this fashion, the makeup too!

[@MichelleOlivetti]

Oh that dress at 0:28 (it is when a girl wears a dress like this that make me want to be so much like them).

[@superbu1]

Annita645, it's "Mr. Sandman" by The Chordettes. It was a #1 hit in 1954.

[@lonewulf44]

elegant and lovely ... I was born 60 years too late.

[@safetychoice]

My God does that song bring back memories. It was l952 or l953 I was a senior at Penn State and that was the hit song of the day. But it was the era of "nice girls don't". Very frustrating for both men and women.

[@MsAppleofhiseye]

Love the 50's dress code..LOVE it! That's what you call CLASS!

[@Suggi1985]

Gott waren die Frauen damals schön und glamorös!!! Die Klamotten, die Haare, der Style...alles passte...WOWI!!!

[@jullianalvin]

I want to live in the 1950's >.

[@frankboff1260]

Alvin Jullian me too!

[@Eyezpopmusic]

this is a good start but what was the style for average americans? with a uniqu sens? afardable ect?....

[@chilvari]

@LAPINGUINATWITCH Mr. Sandman. I always wanted to hear this song full. I heard it on the Golden Girls and loved it ever since

[@mojave19]

Also it's obvious they were very, very picky about their bras, and comfort wasn't a biggy. It was common for 40s and 50s women to be professionally fitted for their bras and there was a whole lot of engineering involved in the design--literally!--Howard Hughes, the great aviation designer, came up with a bra design for Rosalind Russell. I remember seeing my mom's bras and I find those old ones sometimes in vintage clothing and thrift shops. They don't look bearable beyond ten minutes to me.

[@MaximilianMontesa]

I just looooovvveeee the way women wear their clothes back in the 50's. So elegant >: )

[@spiritxdancer]

Wow, these fashions were so elegant. As for the comments on then vs now, every time period had its UPS and downs. What we should do is keep what was good (fashion, manners, art, etc) and reject what was bad ( racism, sexism, etc.

[@dongmo1]

Good job. Nice video!

[@3piratesinthehood]

Women looked and dressed so beautiful back in those days. *sighs* A lot of times I wish it was still like that.

[@Idoljunky32]

I love the styles of the 50's!! My mom wore alot of these styles and she always looked good. Today, it's like alot of young girls (teens and 20's) don't care how they look. I'm a 3rd shift cashier at a 24 hour Walmart and I see young girls either looking like they just rolled out of bed or they look really sleazy. It's like the self respect and dignity in yourself has skipped a generation or two. Granted, I'm in my mid 30's, but I know how to dress nice when needed. JMO.

[@Wolfenstein49]

A man can dream though... A man can dream.

[@LAPINGUINATWITCH]

@chilvari THANK U : )

[@MegaPatriot123]

@friscolobo The clothes, the style, the cars, the music...the way people acted toward eachother...yes there were problems but there are always problems. If I could get into a time machine and go back to 1950 I would.

[@h4o4p4e4f4u4l4]

Exactly! so if you don't mind.one time I wore a dress that has this vintage feel then my friends was like trying to tell me that its uncool gosh!

[@Kasheir]

im 17 and i love the 1950's styles, especially poodle skirts and halterneck shirts and dresses, i love the elegance and class and the natural beauty woman had back then, not like most of girls today, no standards or morals. they need to bring back these kinds of styles i would be the first in line:)

[@LAPINGUINATWITCH]

WATS DA NAME OF THE SONG ?

[@kategrace8842]

AGH I LOVE THIS SONG

[@tradwfe]

everyone looks so clean and elegant. all the girls in my english class are obsessed with 50s fashion but we are all too shy to actually wear this.

[@yrowley699]

I love long skirts on women of the 1950's; they look very sexy indeed especially the long strapless dresses also I love 1950's pop music.

[@Sims2VideoFunTime]

That may be true but that doesn't mean to hate the 50s! It only means hate one specific part about the 50s. :3 If I could, personally I'd bring the 40s-50s back, and I would allow it to be enjoyable for everyone, of every color.

[@frankboff1260]

Kitty Valentine I’m planning to “restyle” my life so it’s more like the 50’s!! I’m tired of the complicated technological age. I’m thinking about starting a KZbin channel about my efforts??? I’m not sure though.....

[@ajaxfitch]

I hate today's generation. I wish I was born in the 30's and enjoy the 50's at age 20. I love how the generation was back then. Of course except for the sexism and racism.

[@frankboff1260]

ajaxfitch Yes! I feel like that too. It was a much better time in many ways although people could be very mean to others who didn’t fit ‘the mould’ My grandmothers shitty husband left her and the kids and I remember her telling me how former friends would cross the street to avoid her because she was getting divorced. Broke my heart, she was such a wonderful woman. That aside there are many things that today’s generation could learn from the 50’s. In fact I’m going to try and “restyle” my life (and my son’s too) so it’s simpler and more like the 50’s. I’m sick of all the internet and non stop bad news and many other things. I’m tossing up whether to do a KZbin channel about it??

[@1901elina]

i love the song but is that a woman singing it? it's kinda hrad to tell from the voice.. but yeah we sang this in my chorus class =]

[@olhuzzy]

Nicely done. :-)

[@tigereyes5]

@cheriansrule Exactly!

[@whiteipod2000]

The 50s were the American Golden Era, on the outside things were nice but truly on the inside there was some bad stuff going. The things I love about this decade was that people were classy, and had respect for themselves and partners, also people were very very family oriented.

[@marybaldwin2633]

The last image didn't look "50's" to me - maybe a little later.

[@ouatwv]

Folks who lived during their teenage years during the 50's had it the best! After the war, there was a mantra for positive music, fashion and style. Of course, I was just an embryo during this period. Ha

[@FaerieCrone]

@chilvari I agree. I think society has gone backwards as far as decency and manners are concerned.

[@shield7738]

Fallout Games You Got Me In The Retro Like.

[@fashionhistorylover]

@kml5265 People can dress better today but I read some articles about fashion and not a lot of women miss tight girdles, high heels, stocking, and petticoats.

[@jaroncreed]

@macabrechaos I agree whole hartedly

[@MegaPatriot123]

I have cocktail parties and i make every one come wearing things from the 50s or at least things dress nicely.

[@MegaPatriot123]

@kallemick It's very sad. I mean what is the problem with trying to look good and having style? When did everything become too relaxed? If you watch the show "What Not to Wear" they try to instill style in women. They actually encourage some of those 50s styles.

[@Bebe7077]

The most elegant and feminine era in women's clothes!

[@SmileysAllRound]

SHE IS!!!!

[@NCBlonde]

I buy vintage whenever I can - and these are great examples of why. Clothes cut and styled for a woman's shape. Who'dathunkit?

[@comedykrazy]

The best fashion era EVER! loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@Teddyb1939]

@QBisbest In the early 50s there were only whites, blacks came to my area London w10, mid 50s.

[@WipeOut180]

I would say 1946-1963 was more of the embodiment of the 50's as we know it, I'm sure there were problems back then as well, but it does look eutopian.

[@Lolza070901]

Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe are legends live them both xx

[@fashionhistorylover]

I like the 50's but I heard that the girdles and crinolines were uncomfortable is that true

[@fashionhistorylover]

@Idoljunky32 People can dress nicer but do we need to go back to girdles, petticoats, and high heels?

[@MaitreyeeMAYHEM]

i kinda wish this style was back. its classic. if you look at how ppl dress now its hard to believe that we have changed. this is where the "girly" part of me comes out. I wish i lived in the 1940-1950 era.

[@Belindagirl13]

i loved how things were back then... like how people would get dressed to step out of there house... and even when they were in the house they dressed nice .. not careing what people would think about them but dressing good for themselvs. i love it.. like people would go out to a restaruant , the circus , the grocery store etc etc and yet they would dress up nice and clean. now its like people dress to go out with stains and flip flops and shitty clothes. everything used to be an experience...

[@paypay305]

I wish people still dress like this :D

[@brownies4you]

Those longer hemlines nurtured more movement, more mystery. Those long, wide-sweeping skirts (with or without the crinoline petticoats) of the mid-1950s helped my older sisters feel even more feminine when in the company of their future husbands...amiable, stalwart gentlemen.

[@ouatwv]

Nice post, Cherry. Today, if a woman stays home and raises kids, she is regarded as 'submissive' and 'lazy.' If a man works hard, two jobs, they call him a workaholic. During the 50's, men and women had roles - and they loved it!

[@sarahts21]

@chilvari It isn't just desensitising. It's also a lack of knowledge. Most women these days aren't taught the same things they were in the 50's, nor do mothers show their daughters how to do things. In some respects this is a good thing, in other respects rather bad. There is also the fact that modern clothes are much easier to wear than their 1950's counter parts: stockings v tights/pantyhose being a prime example of that.

[@kallemick]

its good to see what women looked like back in those days and then its sad to see how they look today :(

[@Elodee123]

@kokocandykane447 I completely agree! The only difference is i'm 16 :) I LOVE the style, and clothes!

[@11anna7]

it's true that there were a lot of stupid things going on in the 50's, like widespread racism. this video isn't saying we should go back to those times, it's about appreciating women's fashion in the 1950's. i wouldn't want to live in the 50's but i do love the fashion, movies, and music that comes out of that time period!

[@TaHiTiTaHoI]

i wish society was made for the shape of those dressed, bc i would totally wear them were it not for the fact i wouldn't fit through the door at school D:

[@MANILABOY6631]

So fine . :-)

[@lindsikinz3795]

:47 i love that dress =D

[@tigereyes5]

Yes they were. Ever heard of Betty Friedan? Learn your history and spare me your insults.

[@KellCrielaars]

i dress like this most of the time i think is gorgeos style ^^

[@raspyshiit]

she was a size 14

[@octemberfury]

@friscolobo nyeaaaah, but there was a lot of racism and sexism in the 50s also, the whole communist witchhunt thing, and high potential of nuclear war

[@beatriceburatti2978]

Audrey 👐 😍

[@TheDiscipleDJ]

@trinity2112 Ofcourse people had respect for each other...if you were white

[@chilvari]

I would love to live in an era where people dressed like this and acted appropriately out in public. But even if we were to bring this back, I don't think it would work now. We as a society have been desensitized to all the sluttyness and whorish styles that are popular now. And frankly, it just wouldn't be the same because this isn't the 1950's anymore. Simply dressing the part doesn't cut it. And people aren't gonna change their attitude and the way they act.

[@lonewulf44]

Man ... the 50's is just like an entire fantastic era wrapped up into little more than a decade (I think of the 50's as really 1946-1959). Women were so much more classy and beautiful ... sad state todays tramp society is.

[@Wutwut1n1]

The main point is being comfortable with yourself and other people, and being free to express yourself regardless of popular belief of what is right or wrong. i don't know why people can't still look like this, or even naked. We have become sexually paranoid and it's beginning to get ridiculous because we can't focus on anything else.

[@Terrorkarel]

What, was that sarcastic?

[@ulyssebasora4245]

bien

[@fashionhistorylover]

@mrshinyshoes True but those clothes must have been hot and uncomdortable, suits, heels, rubber girdles, and petticoats.

[@rosieparez]

AAAHHHHH, back when people had class. Now you see people going out to eat with gym shorts, tank top and flip flops. I think I was born in the wrong decade. I hope this comes back....it needs to

[@MyBambam33]

Now that's what I call it fashion. For women.

[@Askingthestarsabove247]

good years it seems for those who were white males

[@rtp1968]

@trinity2112 : I told my dad the same thing today.

[@dibbie67]

I'm sure the girdles were uncomfortable. My crinoline isn't. Of course, I don't STARCH my crinoline like they did back then and I DON'T wear GIRDLES! LOL! That COULD be the secret to those women having such TINY WAISTLINES! :P

[@CallMeGeek]

@kallemick Stop making me sad!

[@julieerin115]

And don't get me started about today: 100-pounds excessive baggage, cheek exposing skirts/shorts, ombre hair (I really don't get that look!), writing on the butt (okay, it's been a while since I've seen that), bodies COVERED in tattoos, the roll-out-of-bed/who-gives-a-shit look...

[@WilliamPierce38]

this was when women dressed like women I love it

[@fixizin]

Well, that's who makes it ALL happen, so... probably a good idea to keep them happy, eh? ;^) Look what's happened since. =:O

[@LeaveMyGun]

im just 15 but i wish i could live in the 50's. i hate todays world.

[@roykeane8670]

My white???

[@tigereyes5]

@trinity2112 Oh yes people had so much respect for others that black people were forced to drink from different water fountains, sit at the back of buses and seggregated from society, women were oppressed, and the working class lived in absolute poverty. I agree that manners and custom were better back then but all in all it was not a great era in regards to equality. I think the 50s is overly romanticised. It was a glamorous time but it had a lot of problems as well.