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Imagine These Ladies In Pajamas In The 1950's.

Foxxee — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:48:58 GMT

Re: Imagine These Ladies In Pajamas In The 1950's.

Othereeeen — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:59:34 GMT

You are 100% correct......people had a lot more sense in those days...and NO I don't want to live in the past....

Someone posted some pix of old cars with people standing near them, dressed in 40a or 50s styles, and your thought here is exactly what I thought when I saw those pictures.

NO ONE would have dreamed of going out like people dress today.

And not as far back as the 1950s.....I would say as late as the later 70,s. although slop-dop was already making it's appearance...

Look at people's body shapes too. You can tell they didn't spend all day grazing on junk food, eating gimmicky supplements, and loading up on fast food garbage.

There are some things I would like to go back to.NO I don't wear heels and pearls to grocery shop, but I NEVER dress slop dop when I'm in public. NEVER.

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skatting44 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:10:06 GMT

Fashion really went to the garbage can when the style of men wearing their pants down to their thighs with their underwear completely exposed. What is that all abt..

I saw a young man wearing his jeans so low that not only was his entire but/ boxer shorts completely exposed that I am sure he could not run if his life depended on it .

Men pull up your pants and the big baggy look is awlful.

I also see some still wearing Goth style with black finger nails , dyed black hair and looking like it's Holloween

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:28:53 GMT

Clothes with enough holes and bare threads making you look like you were attacked by a rabid honeybadger went in the trash. Now folks can't wait to pay big bucks because someone famous deems it a trend.

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songbird — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:35:47 GMT

I can't tell with the picture. It actually looks more 1940's then 1950's. (the women's hair) But men are not wearing hats. I read the death of the man's hat happened when JFK became president. He never wore a hat. Now women can wear a Fedora (the only man's hat I ever liked) Only men in Texas wear hats and they have to be cowboy hats. Also no gloves. I read a novel written in 1952 where women always wore short white gloves when ever they went outside. Also belts, another missing item in today's fashion. Back then women wore matching colored belts on their dresses. Although I do wear a belt with jeans. It's brown and real leather.

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Meowingkitty — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:54:19 GMT

All I can say is thank goodness we don't dress like that anymore. It looks uncomfortable, to much laundry and hot in summer. No thanks.

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tansy — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:54:56 GMT

My mother wore those silly white gloves in the 50s. She also wore a girdle with stockings attached by a hook closure. In the 60s she had her hair done once a week, ratted and teased into a helmet and tried to make the style last until her next appointment. Napkins attached to a belt device...anyone want to do that?

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happilyretiredgirl — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:14:32 GMT

@tansy I just had a sweet flashback of my dear mother....she wore the same as you metioned and had her hair done every Saturday morning to last for the week...LOL!! I can still see her with a wrap she would put around her head each night to keep her sprayed stiff teased hair in place. Thanks for the sweet memory!

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RoughDraft — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:51:28 GMT

I noticed the picture was taken in Rio in the 1950s. It strikes me that similar photos could be found in any city in the world around that time. They were our "costumes" of the time.

Mores, fashions and life styles are always morphing, possibly dictated by modernization, technology, labor force, etc.

Besides that, the memory of my mother having a laundry day and a day for ironing makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

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KathyM23 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:54:04 GMT

We need a happy medium between the two. We went out to eat today and I was facing the door and as I watched people walk in I thought Oh goodness, who goes out in public dressed like that.

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ROMARY — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 04:13:56 GMT

What I don't miss is the scent/odor of dry cleaned garments.

OMGosh.......How toxic were those fumes. We used to air out our dry cleaned garments.

So much easier today......machine or hand wash almost everything.

Also, it wasn't any fun trying to 'perfectly' match the colors of our sweaters with wool skirts. All of those shades and tints of pastels.

Going from store to store. I don't know how we managed to find the time.

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goldensrbest — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:31:59 GMT

I happen to think people looked much nicer,clothing was so much better,just wait until years from now someone post pictures of whatpeople wear now!!!!

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ECBG — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:35:47 GMT

@ROMARY wrote:
What I don't miss is the scent/odor of dry cleaned garments.

OMGosh.......How toxic were those fumes. We used to air out our dry cleaned garments.

So much easier today......machine or hand wash almost everything.

Also, it wasn't any fun trying to 'perfectly' match the colors of our sweaters with wool skirts. All of those shades and tints of pastels.
Going from store to store. I don't know how we managed to find the time.

@ROMARY

Totally with you! I couldn't stand the "a" line skirts and cardigan sets. I'm thankful I got to see attractive new shapes come in.

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ROMARY — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:26:04 GMT

Oh, and many women strived to be / look very slim.

I recall several of my schoolmates / acquaintences taking their mothers' water pills in order to keep their weight down for that 'skinny' look.

And, then, their were all of those 'girdle' types of lingerie.......seems as though there was a constant/continuous struggle to 'look' as thin as possible.

Talk about stress........

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KathyM23 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:26:57 GMT

@ROMARY I didn't have any trouble trying to match. Wore a lot of dresses and suits to work, not skirts and tops. Pants and tops tho - no problem. And then as now I found plenty of time to shop. One of my hobbies!

I sure do agree with you about the dry cleaning smell. Awful. Every Saturday one of my errands was to go the dry cleaners and if you were there by Noon, there was a much reduced cost (don't remember how much, but a big reduction. Saturday was my day to sleep in and it was a real chore getting to the cleaners on time after being out late Friday night.

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KathyM23 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 23:37:52 GMT

@tansy My mother made me wear white gloves to Church. And I did wear those lightweight girdles with hooks for stockings. Seemed normal at the time.

I also did the fancy teased hair. My hairdresser was an artist at hair styling. I did go 2 x a week tho as she was in the building across from the building where I worked downtown so I would go on my lunch hour. I wrapped my hair in toilet paper with a net over it that tied to keep it in place.

I have a picture of me sleeping the night before I got married with that pink net tied around my head.

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tansy — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:40:07 GMT

@KathyM23 @I remember trying to sleep in rollers with bristles inside the roller. Ouch!

During high school I worked the counter at a dry cleaners. I loved operating the big motorized racks.

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GoneButNotForgotten — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:36:30 GMT

what strikes me is how slim most of them are. America is experiencing an epidemic of obesity. I think someone in the medical field said it's America's worst health problem.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:19:58 GMT

Imagine that picture to someone from 1910. They'd be horrified by the scandalous way those women are dressed.

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ROMARY — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:30:16 GMT

Commenting re: another poster's post:

Yes, I sometimes/often say 'Good old days', but, being realistic, not everyone was living 'good days'.

I guess I was in middle school when one of my friends had returned from a vacation in the South.......I remember saying 'How nice", etc., etc. and she told me what she observed, which wasn't good at all.

I'll never forget our conversation.

I was shocked, mainly because we grew up and lived in a very diversified community, thank goodness.