1950s-1960s

Fashion in 1950s to 1960s

In the years following the second world war is distinguish by the rebirth of the haute couture after all the austerity of the war years. 

Square shoulders and short skirts were replaced by the soft femaleness of Christian Dior’s new look silhouette , with it sweeping  longer skirts, fitted waist and rounded shoulders , which gave an unfitted ,structural look in the1950s. 

Improvement in the textile technology following the war were seen in the new synthetic  fabrics and easy care fabric finishes that fixed in the suburban lifestyle of the 1950s with its highlighting on casual sportswear for man and woman. 

For the first time teenagers became a strength in fashion.

In 1947 fashion houses in Paris had reopened, and Paris took back his position as the  top of high fashion.

 A sequence of style trends led by Christian Dior  and Cristobal Balenciaga sharped the changing silhouette of women clothes during the 1950s. 

Television and movies joined the fashion magazine in publicizing clothes styles. A result of the after war was an abundance of synthetic fabrics and easy care processes. Nylon, orlon, Dacron which could contain heat-set plates after washing, started to become popular and acrylic, polyester, triacetate and spandex were introduced in 1950s.

Social changes went hand to hand with the new economics reality , and one of the results was the many young people that would have become wage earners early in their youth stayed at home and dependent at their parents through high school and after, starting the idea of the teenage as a separate stage of development. 

Previously teenagers dressed in the same way as their parents, but now an uncontrollable and differ youth style was coming. During the war New   York became an American designing center and remained so, especially   for sport. The women’s that had worn trouser during the war time refused to leave this garment which was appropriate for the informal aspects of the after war lifestyle. 

Casual sportswear was a growing  in the women’s wed robes. 

In 1950s skirts turn out to be narrow and worn ankle-length.

Pants collected to mid-calf were homeboy pants; short pants, below the knee, were called pedal-pushers.

Shoes were narrom, with tapering toes and high heel.

Dior for the Queen designed a gold leather shoes in 1953. In 1955 he presented the “choc” shoes.

the fisrt perfume launched in 1947 

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The arise oh the leather jacket because of the riders.
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