1959 fashion woman

1950’s Brief history of fashion in pictures.

1959 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 97

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1950s gave trapese look a bit wider in the top but the bottom of the dress is bigger and flow.

1956 Montgomery Ward Spring Summer Catalog, Page 86

Model is wearing knitted dress by Anne Fogarty, velvet hat by Emme and alligator bag by Lucille Glamour Oct 1959 © Sante Forlano

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.

You don't have to be a fashion die-hard to appreciate the magic of these photographs captured in 1951 at Paris fashion week by my favorite go-to archive, LIFE magazine. The late 1940s and 1950s was a time of intense interest in Paris fashion and haute couture. But even though some of the names of th

In the new exhibit by photographer Mark Shaw, we (finally) get to see what went on behind the scenes at Paris couture in the 1950s.