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!
I've waited so long for this time. Makeup is so frustrating. Shaking hands and I look so old. This was a mistake.
My new maid's outfit is cute. Sure fits tight.
And then I step into the bedroom and in the mirror, I see a beautiful woman looking back at me.
Smile, Honey! You look fabulous!
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.
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.
I don't wear women's clothes, I wear MY clothes !
I love 'em all! Working on some super full dresses with huge petty coats now!
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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.
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.
Poodle skirts and midi dresses?
Not for me!
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.
I am more influenced by what women wear nowadays.
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.
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.
Born in 49 but like late late 50s to mid 60s a lot.
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
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1942, When ladies always dressed to Impress, >Orchid**OO**
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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).
Please define each decade period fashion because I have no clue at all.
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.
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1939, I don't think I would want to replicate that era after the depression. I'll stick with 2021.
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.
6a010536b86d36970c026bdece100d200c.jpg 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.
Please call me Jamie, I always_have crossdressed, I always will, "alwayshave".
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.
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.
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.
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1960's here....
Escapism isn't necessarily bad, but is definitely unhealthy in the long term. While helpful in the short term, things will degrade over time. At some point, the escapee will have to face the issue. Things simply blowing over isn't really going to happen in many situations.
1954 but I prefer the early 70's from my high school years.
Joni
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.
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