Australia's Social and Cultural History in the post war period. Chosen Decade - 1950s

1950s fashionCarrying on from the ways of the 1940s, clothes looked more affluent, stylish and high-class. Women still dressed to kill(p) fairly formally with hats, gloves and stockings regarded as ingrained accessories. Women usually carried their handbags. American movie stars such(prenominal)(prenominal) as Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner in addition influenced women?s fashion. Parisian fashions such as Christian Dior?s ? virgin Look? which disportd pinched in waist and fair(a) skirts were eagerly sought out and copied by Australian women. Women likewise copied the conservative image of Sandra Dee. Department stores began to run fashion parades to let all the latest overseas fashions and magazines such as ?Australian Women?s Weekly? and ?Vogue?. The fashion parades featured tips and ideas for modernistic dressing. Men still wore suits but new fashions were emerging for them in sport clothing as synthetic materials became popular. Sports jackets, s ports shirts, Bermuda shorts and dirty denim jeans became popular. Middle-aged men still wore hats and had haircuts that tended to be close-cropped throng cuts. There were also changes to teenage fashion. By the late 1950s, the British ?Teddy Boy? bearing became the vogue for many former(a) men. Stovepipe (narrow) trousers, narrow ties and pointed shoes became fashionable. Movie stars such as Marlon Brando from The Wild One created teenage fashion with Levis, ripple-soled shoes and grumble motorbike jackets.

Young men were influenced by James dean who wore a white T-shirt and jeans. American rock star s such as Elvis Presley set a new entitle w! ith leather bike jackets, tight trousers, white socks and black rubber-soled shoes. The boys that followed this abridge were called ?bodgies?. They also used hair cream (Brylcreem) and, grew long sideburns. Girls, sleep with as ?widgies? wore blouses and full skirts and petticoats that swirled during rock ?n? roll or jive dances. Schools maintained conservative dress standards. In... If you want to exsert a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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