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CarlaWestin
08-08-2021, 12:08 PM
I love the old movies. I was watching one from 1955 this morning. OMG! The fashion. Pointy bullet bras under sweaters, long skirts and saddle shoes. Garter belts, hose and heels. Everyone looked like Bettie Page .

So, what was the fashion in the year you were born? Do you embrace/emulate it?

I know I do!

kimdl93
08-08-2021, 12:10 PM
Not at all. I thought the popular styles of the 50s were peculiar then and I find them even more peculiar today. I put 50’s styles in the same category as fender skirts and fins on cars…functionally pointless and excessive.

Cheryl T
08-08-2021, 12:56 PM
I don't remember what was in style back then, but No I certainly don't emulate it.
I have no desire to be June Cleaver.

docrobbysherry
08-08-2021, 12:58 PM
I love 'em all! Working on some super full dresses with huge petty coats now!:battingeyelashes:

LydiaL
08-08-2021, 02:02 PM
Poodle skirts and midi dresses?

Not for me!

Nic J
08-08-2021, 02:09 PM
I was born in the '70's (the decade that taste forgot) so you can safely guess that i don't wear fashions from the era of my birth. :eek:
I am more influenced by what women wear nowadays.

MarinaTwelve200
08-08-2021, 02:17 PM
Born in 49 but like late late 50s to mid 60s a lot.

Taylor186
08-08-2021, 02:19 PM
I don't femulate my birth year, but I did develop an awareness of fashion maybe nine or ten years later, and that was the 60s, and yes, that has had a big influence on my dressing styles.

Rayleen
08-08-2021, 03:17 PM
the fashion the year born ;

Dresses and skirts, plaids, ginghan, florals. Bright colors were popular.Shirtwaist dresses slipped over the head.

Quiffed hair

short curls

BLUE ORCHID
08-08-2021, 04:10 PM
1942, When ladies always dressed to Impress, >Orchid**O:daydreaming:O**

DianeT
08-08-2021, 04:28 PM
Born in the boots made for walkin' era, the women in my young years wore skirts a little longer than in Nancy's music video, but hey, now you know why I loved pantyhose back then (heck, I still do. 50 years passed and I didn't progress a bit. Epic fail. Sigh).

xam
08-08-2021, 04:31 PM
Please define each decade period fashion because I have no clue at all.

alwayshave
08-08-2021, 07:23 PM
322624 This was the fashion the year I was born. I'm not a fan. I'm more a fan of the clothes from the 50s than the early 60s.

LilSissyStevie
08-08-2021, 08:12 PM
I was born in '54 but I'm a huge fan of Classic Film Noir which was on the wane by that time. Mostly I like the period from the end of WWII to when I was born. I always liked the fashions of those Film Noir bad girls. I never tried to emulate them, though. Even for me, some things are sacred.

lingerieLiz
08-08-2021, 10:04 PM
I grew up in the 50s. Girls wore bobby socks. nylon panties became common after the war and replaced rayon. I had a bullet bra. As I got older I wore panty girdles and long leg panty girdles. Girls liked them as it kept the guys out of their panties.

Pumped
08-08-2021, 10:26 PM
Carla, my year is 1959 so not much different than you. Some of the full skirts are attractive and the longer straight skirt and jacket can look good to. But I am more bodycon dresses which I probably should not wear! I do have one full skirt dress. I keep thinking about buying a crinoline slip to fluff it up a bit.

mbmeen12
08-09-2021, 01:33 AM
322629

1960's here....

Joni T
08-09-2021, 04:22 AM
1954 but I prefer the early 70's from my high school years.
Joni

HelpMe,Rhonda
08-09-2021, 04:38 AM
Yes, I'm thinking the fashions of the years you got to puberty are probably more likely to be the ones that stick in your brain.

Ressie
08-09-2021, 05:40 AM
Betty Paige was so sexy and so was Marylin. I like the undergarments from the early '50s but I'm not crazy about the June Cleaver dresses etc.

Vintage4sarah
08-10-2021, 05:17 AM
Yes, I'm thinking the fashions of the years you got to puberty are probably more likely to be the ones that stick in your brain.

Rhonda, I agree with you about the year(s) that you enter puberty. The seed might already be planted in your childhood years, but that seed blossoms during the years of puberty when we become much more aware and sensitive to what is around us. I was born in 1948, but I love the fashions of the 50s and into the 60s. Intriguing ladies undergarments, nylon stockings and dresses and skirts everywhere certainly overwhelmed my initiation to the world of sexual curiosity.

southerngirl
08-11-2021, 05:59 PM
1975. Prefer today's fashion.

Judy-Somthing
08-11-2021, 06:15 PM
I hate that when I see the incredibly beautiful dresses in the movies of the 40s and 50s I want them so bad.
You can imagine what they would cost!

I loved women in the 60s and still have some fondness for girdles, I can see why they phased out, can you imagine wearing one all day at work, ya right!

RADER
08-11-2021, 07:26 PM
I was born in 1947. In the 50's most women wore a skirt or a dress.
Pants where very hard to find unless it was because they where working.

Bea_
08-11-2021, 07:37 PM
Born in 55. As a MIAD I don?t emulate any decade but liked bits of pretty much every decade. To wear, I gravitate towards current styles that are cute/comfortable.

cdinmd206
08-12-2021, 09:21 PM
I am with Carla on this one. Back in the late 40s and early 50s Those ladies had style and grace.

Gilly68
08-14-2021, 01:06 AM
I was born in 68, so I suppose I would have a hippy look, which I wouldn't be against trying - long dresses, long hair etc, but I'm not going braless! And I'm definitely not letting my body hair grow back! 😁

I think I prefer today's fashions though, or maybe if I could choose, a 50s housewife look.

Helen_Highwater
08-14-2021, 03:46 AM
Born in 54 and I think it's fair to say that you can find dresses and skirts hanging on the shop rails today that wouldn't look out of place back then.

My earliest recollection of a fashion from my childhood was those skirts with the starched underskirts that stuck out at about 45 degreyes.

Those things could decapitate a young child they were so rigid.

ShirleyN
08-14-2021, 05:54 AM
Well I was born in 1977 but naturally don't recall what the fashions were. Presumably whatever was the fashions of the late 70s, early 1980.

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Born in 1977 so naturally don't recall the fashions back then so presumably whatever were the fashions of the late 70s, early 1980s.

BTWimRobin
08-14-2021, 06:53 AM
I was born in1962. At the time everyone was obsessed with what Jackie wore. Back then I was more into diapers than dresses. It wasn't until a few years later when I started paying more attention to what all the girls were wearing.

GretchenM
08-14-2021, 12:48 PM
Born in 1945, at the end of WW II. By then the economy was in the dumps and looking back at what most people wore everyday was pretty sad. But by the 50's the economy had recovered and people had more money to spend on clothes. My mother had so many beautiful dresses and all the undergarments to match and create a figure that was a bit of an illusion. I tried on a lot of them. Hooked me good and satisfied the young girl that was in me. Then I got caught and my world changed, and not for the better.

abby054
08-14-2021, 03:33 PM
The 70s. The decade that taste forgot. Krea, that is excellent description. How true. I wrote that one down to give to my grown fashionista daughter, who ridicules 70s fashion at every opportunity. Though I did not consider myself fortunate at the time to be in the military in assignments that required uniforms 24/7 during most of that decade, it was better than being condemned to wear 70s fashion.

In the late 50s, the decade of my birth, in my rural Midwest US community, big girl fashion did pretty well. My Mum looked GOOD in her Sunday dress and heels. Grandma, not so much. She was not a fashion plate like Mum and Auntie. But for the young girls my age, it was the era of dress up your daughter as frilly as you can afford, in curls, satin and lace, and white tights with patent leather shoes. It was a golden age and yet, for me, spent on the drab side of an abyss that none crossed publicly.

Two of my sisters embraced it. The other fought it. That still describes their appearance sixty years later. Mum still turns heads at age 90. She had no shortage of attention after Dad died. Dad found ways to look truly dapper, though with a somewhat retro 30s vibe. He actually looked great. So did his Grandpa. Their neckties and suits shouted Great Gatsby. I did my best swimming upstream against some cold fashion currents among my peers to keep up with them.

SaraLin
08-15-2021, 05:28 AM
I was born in the early fifties. We were in a "working poor" community, and fashion wasn't something that got a lot of attention.
I vaguely remember my sister getting a poodle-type skirt (it didn't actually have a poodle on it) but I don't think she wore it much. I was pretty young back then, but I think I remember sneaking in a try-on.
What I remember fondly is when mini skirts were popular. By then I was old enough to have TWO reasons to like them.

April Rose
08-15-2021, 12:48 PM
I was born in 1950, so, grew up in the 50's and 60's. So the fashions were from that era. A lot of the movies shown on TV in those days were from the 30'ds and 40's as well. So 4 decades of influence when fashion was distinctly binary, and women's fashions in particular were elegant and feminine.

VivianNewkirk
08-15-2021, 03:00 PM
I'm a modern girl (despite my age) so I dress for the 21st century. That said, Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn brought a lot of class to the table while the hippies brought a lot of fun!

Lacey New
08-19-2021, 06:45 AM
Born in 51. Love the lingerie from the early 60s. All that pretty silky nylon and lace and Mrs. Robinson pulling on her gartered stockings.

Angela Marie
08-19-2021, 09:08 AM
Born in 54. I honestly can’t remember the styles from the 60?s but that is when I began wearing my mother?s tights; a prelude to my dressing. I think current fashions offer a more gender neutral look which I love.

Janine cd
09-05-2021, 08:58 PM
I was born when dresses were beautifully feminine and skirts were modestly displayed below the knee. To give you a hint about my age, the movie "Gone With The Wind" had just been released the year that I was born.

Kris Burton
09-05-2021, 11:26 PM
1952. That makes me 13 in 1965...perfect age for those 60s styles I wish never went away...the tight super short skirts,"go-go" boots as they called them - such a goofy name for something I found so alluring. And the hairstyles. I clearly recall my first celebrity crush was Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes. In a way I still search for that ideal...super sexy and so cool.

AshleyClaireSnider
09-06-2021, 02:42 AM
I was born at the very end of the 80s, which means shoulder pads in bright colors and animal print. Definitely not something I pine for.

Kiwi Primrose
09-06-2021, 04:36 AM
I was born in 1936 and my memories are vague until I was about 10. In the late 1930s we were still recovering from the depression then straight into WWII. So there was austerity all round and clothes had to last.
Then Dad came home from war and we became a family again and Mum started to wear new things. The ones that really attracted me were the beautiful underwear sets she bought. This is where my love of lingerie came from and I still love the frocks, especially the summer ones with big skirts and the winter suits with pleated skirts, padded shoulder jackets and pretty blouses.

Denice
09-06-2021, 05:24 AM
1964. Really started noticing the world around me at 7-8 years old. 1970's? They were great!

Debra Russell
09-06-2021, 12:00 PM
I was born in 1945 and started trying on my sisters slips and dresses when I was about 5 or 6. My favorite style of clothing was when I was in High school, I loved the girls thght sweaters and full skirts; unfortunatuly not much of a call for that attire now days..................................Debra

Mermaiden
09-06-2021, 06:20 PM
I was born in the narrow window when there were 49 states in the US.
Vintage clothing is fun to look at, but I don?t wear it.

JoanneNY
09-06-2021, 08:04 PM
I was a 1938 arrival, just as the depression was ending. I have a pic of me at the 1939 New York World's Fair, sitting in a stroller, but don't remember, heck I was only 1-YO !

Charlotte Haynes
09-07-2021, 02:18 AM
1969 and I have pictures of my mother at that time and I have occasionally tried to emulate them. This makes me sound odd(er), but that is what it is. My interest in cross dressing was never higher than when my mother was preparing for a night out and transforming herself. That is what I wanted to do, too. However the fashions of the early to mid eighties really inspired me. As someone else on here pointed out, puberty time.

Lilly Diadem
09-07-2021, 03:20 AM
I was born at the dawn of the 1970's and do love the styles of the latter part of the decade which spilled into the early 80's.

Maxi dresses, midi dresses, platforms, wedges, flesh toned hose with everything - yay :)

I also like plenty of styles from before and after the late 70's and enjoy the current styles suitable for a mature lady in her early fifties many of which hint at a bygone era :battingeyelashes:

mollymulligan
09-08-2021, 06:31 PM
I was born in the mid 60's and loved the clothing of that time. Short skirts and dresses, boots, Mary Janes, tights. Most of the girls wore dresses and skirts back then. I wasn't a big fan of the 70's when mini skirts went away for a short while, but loved the 80 fashions and dresses in particular. That's when I wore my first dress of my then girlfriend. It was a huge rush when I finally zipped it up in the back for the first time and slipped on some pumps.

BlueTempest
09-09-2021, 03:38 PM
90?s child. I can?t think that it was a particularly defining period for fashion but having my formative years around the millennium I can say that low cut jeans, strappy tops and Britney certainly left their mark

GraceH
09-09-2021, 03:48 PM
I was born in 1948, and am very partial to mid-50s fashion. Makes sense, since I started cross-dressing when I was 7 (1955).

Jennifer956
09-10-2021, 01:09 AM
I was born 1986 😚😚

Kimberly A.
09-10-2021, 02:03 AM
I was born in 1983..... The fashions of course were things like leg warmers, tights and unitards, colorful fishnet sleeves and well, Idk what all. LOL But no, I don't try to dress like women did in the 1980s. I try to stick with today's fashion as much as I can. LOL
But, here's a link with a bunch of fashion pics from 1983: https://www.simplyeighties.com/80s-fashion-pictures-from-1983.php Don't worry, no sign-up required. LOL

Cheryl T
09-10-2021, 02:24 PM
No, I don't care for those styles and have no desire to wear them.

josie_S
09-18-2021, 10:34 AM
I love the way women looked in the early 70s but I could never pull that off so I don't emulate the look. I prefer the 90s if anything, likely because that's when I started dressing head to toe

Snide_lobster
10-03-2021, 04:02 PM
2000, Im a youngin. That being said early 2000s fashion is an interesting beast to say the least.

Jen60
10-03-2021, 06:39 PM
1950, but I?m very partial to the styles of the sixties.

tbryant2k16
10-03-2021, 10:51 PM
Born in 1980, but don't dress for that era. I dress for 2021 or whatever the current year is.

kinky_caitlin
10-04-2021, 03:22 AM
Nope, I never was an fan of any fashions from the 80s

Connie D50
10-04-2021, 05:24 AM
Thank you for doing the work for me finding what women were wearing was woarn in 1955 was a great year :)

Linda K.
10-04-2021, 05:34 AM
I was born in 1962 and I am not a fan of the fashion from that time. The Jackie O. style is terrible! I find the fashion from the 40's to be the classiest because it was simple yet elegant. For me, the 40's were the best. I love the flowing type dresses they wore, the hair styles were beautiful, stockings, shoes, I could go on forever. Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, and the one I am just simply in love with Ingrid Bergman. Even Lucille Ball was a knockout in the 40's. Come on, that was class and style! :heehee:

Daryl
10-04-2021, 08:30 AM
1939, I don't think I would want to replicate that era after the depression. I'll stick with 2021.

Karren H
10-04-2021, 09:54 PM
I was born in 1952 - the big fashion news that year - the world's first sex- change operation.

Former US soldier George Jorgensen shocked the world by returning from a holiday in Denmark as a slender, blonde, woman called Christine.