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1950s fashion

The 1950's had a simple fashion of jeans, leather jackets, detailed skirts and dresses. Leather jackets were very famous for teenage boys during the 50's. Men wore suits quite often. The Poodle skirts were very popular. It was a wide swing skirt with a fabric poodle placed on the right bottom part of the skirt. Another type of skirt was the pencil skirt, pencil skirts are long below the knee. Lady's often tied their hair in a ponytail and circled it with a pink chiffon scarf. They usually use pin curling and rollers to curl their hair. They also slept in curlers and rollers. Men's hairstyles in the 50’s were similar to the women's. To accomplish the look you would need a lot of grease or hairspray. A popular shoe was the saddle shoe. They were very heavy and rather stiff. They were black and white and looked like a sneaker, also there was the spike or the stiletto heel, another fashion shoe was the ballet slipper they were often worn with white socks. There were different kinds of dresses; one was a summery afternoon floral, it has a swing skirt attached to a top. Young teens or girls did not wear these types of dresses. Three most popular accessories were gloves, scarves, and swim caps. Scarves came in many lengths, colors and patterns. Scarves were worn as different things. They could be worn as a belt, a hair tie and around your neck. They used swim caps to keep their hair dry and to try to hold the style. by Katrina Holobrodskyj