Fashion

[Foxxee]

[Othereeeen]

@Foxxee 

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.

[skatting44]

 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

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

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.

[songbird]

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. 

[Meowingkitty]

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.

[tansy]

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?  

[happilyretiredgirl]

@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!

[RoughDraft]

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.

[KathyM23]

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.