1950s style
(Music) By the spring of 1943, nearly 50,000 Americans had returned home from the Korean War in coffins. People at home continued to wonder how much longer they would have to endure this strange war...
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In terms of the history of "couture", "couture", like I said, developed in France and historically "couture" was, and is, rather expensive, kind...
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This jacket I created to be a jacket like you would imagine I Dream of Jeannie era like a 50's housewife whose throwing a party, this is her jacket. She's got a dress on underneath or...
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At the end of the '40s, actually 1947, Dior introduced what he called the "new look" which involved a full skirt on the bottom, and some sort of jacket or collared top. Now...
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Hairstyles in the '50s got more and more elaborate as the decade progressed. I'm wearing a sort of early '50s hairdo. The biggest thing is that your hair needed really to be...
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The second popular silhouette of the fifty's, which was more popular in the later part of the decade is similar to what I am wearing now. It was called the pencil silhouette. This is a pencil...
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Hello! My name is Denise Robertson and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am here to talk about how to dress on a budget. Danielle is wearing the same sweater that she wore in the previous outfit. Now...
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This style of eyeglasses is called a lorgnette, lorgnette. It is a pair of glasses that has a long stick on the side, metal, typically, that is what you use to hold them with. They are not going to...
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So this is a little bit more of a modern take on '50s casual wear. You notice the skirt goes out, it's emphasizing the hips, it comes up high and emphasizes the waist. It hits right...
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Hi, today we're going to talk about how to dress retro regarding the '50s era. Now the '50s follow the end of World War II where there had been rationing on all sorts of things...
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