2. 1. FASHION IN THE 50s
It was turned to using the corset to allow
the waist getting marked
Skirt had great volume. It was called
“flower”. Although slim pencil –line skirt
was used too.
Accessories were very popular during this
time: handbags, hats, scarves, gloves, big
jewelry, wild belts…
Fashionable eyewear also became
trendy for 1950s accessories
Movie stars and celebrities fashion influenced the clothing styles of
ladies in the 1950s.
3. Nowadays the women prefer casual clothes. The fashion a many
years ago that is adapted to the lifestyle of working women.
The women are wearing baggy pants,
jeans, shirts and skirts of all kinds, every
day, and long dresses for special
moments.
Fashion accessories are also used in a
practical sense (big handbag, for
example...)
In general, there are people who use
different styles, more or less formal
clothes. But most people agree that they
like to feel confortable.
2. Fashion today
4. 3. Comparison
In general, the fashion of the 50 defined women more feminine
elegant and sexy than fashion today.
In mi opinion, the fashion of the fifties was most extravagant of all
time.
Nowadays the style is more casual, and the people use very
different clothes. It seems to me that people today choose their
clothes of a way more free that in the 1950s.
5. 4. Personal opinion
Personally, I am not interested in clothes and I don’t like wearing the
latest fashions. I don’t go shopping very often, but when I go, I like to
buy casual clothes, because it is more confortable to wear. This is the
style of clothes I wear every day. Colours like gray, black or blue and
the right size are only important to me.
However, I realize that the 1950s was very important because it saw
the birth of pret-a-porter and mass production, (it was used the data
of 100.000 women to standaridize sizing for the garment industry), so
the fashion was available to the general population.
