1950s fashion and hairstyles

1950s fashion is a change in women's clothing style, a return to luxury and femininity, or New Look style. Fashion returns to Paris again. French designer Christian Dior in 1947 releases his collection, which confirms a new style in fashion - New Look.

New Look is a return to luxury, to femininity, to splendor, to unnecessary waste on a suit. A return to everything that was lacking during the war years. Christian Dior was too wasteful by post-war standards - he spent many meters of excellent fabric on sewing one dress. Dior was criticized - among his critics were both thrifty housewives and many designers, for example, the famous Coco Chanel. However, by the early 1950s, Dior's style was taking over the world.

New Look is:

Makeup v New Look style Is naturalness and freshness. Blush pale pink or light peach, eyebrow pencil in delicate shades, eyeliner and lipstick in natural colors, but long eyelashes.

1950s fashion and hairstyles

Hairstyles - either subtle bunches, or soft waves and curls.

Dior himself spoke of his style as follows:
“We have left behind us an era of war, uniforms, and labor service for women with broad shoulders as a boxer. I drew women resembling flowers, gently convex shoulders, a rounded chest line, liana-like slender waists and wide skirts diverging towards the bottom like flower cups. "

1950s style icons are Audrey Hepburnrepresenting the outfits of another outstanding fashion designer of the mid-twentieth century, the aristocrat Hubert de Givenchy. Audrey Hepburn's style is round glasses, funny hats, the famous black dress just below the knees and a massive pearl necklace.

Marilyn Monroe Is a style icon representing Hollywood. Bright red lipstick, front sight, blond curls. Crop tops and form-fitting dresses, as well as the hourglass silhouette, which is also present in the New Look, were some of the elements of Marilyn Monroe's style.

Grace Kelly - actress and princess of Monaco. She wore satin evening gowns and skirts, athletic cut dresses and custom jackets. Hairstyle - always perfectly styled hair.

Brigitte Bardot - a style icon of the 50-60s of the twentieth century. It is she who introduces sweaters with wide cutouts that open both shoulders, as well as bikinis. Her hair is a disheveled babette. Babette's hairstyle is already the hairstyle of the next decade, 1960s, a dense roll of hair, which is located almost at the top of the head.

Men in the 1950s wore tapered pipe trousers with cuffs, straight-cut blazers with velvet or moleskin cuffs, tight ties, and platform boots (creepers). This style appeared in England and was called "Teddy Boys". Teddy is short for Edward.

It was believed that this style in some way imitated the era of the English king Edward VII. At the same time, with such costumes, hairstyles with bangs were worn, which fit into the spinner.

From the mid-1950s, English youth began to dress in the style of rock and roll - silk suits, bell-bottomed trousers, open collars are becoming fashionable. Under the influence of Italy, short square jackets, white shirts with a thin tie and waistcoats, narrowed trousers, often a scarf peeped out of the breast pocket of the vest, came into fashion. The boots take on a sharp-toed shape.

Young people who are called "dudes" appear in the Soviet Union.These were mainly young people from families of diplomats and party workers, that is, those young people who were able to visit the West. Influenced the spread of Western fashion among young people in the USSR and the VI World Festival of Youth and Students held in Moscow in 1957.

"Hipsters" wore tight trousers - "pipes", in summer - bright Hawaiian shirts, jackets with wide shoulders, ties - "herring" and umbrella-sticks, on the head - hairstyle "kok" - whipped hair. Girls - dresses of the silhouette "hourglass", bright colors, hairstyles - curled long strands that were laid around the head.