Funny! I remember the '50s and only the early '60s as golden ages of femininity as the later '60s were when girls went into shapeless sacque dresses and then into shapeless jeans and t-shirts as the Age of Aquarius arrived.

For ultimate femininity you want the 1860's rather than the 1960's. It is impossible to describe, to anyone who hasn't tried it, the feeling of spending the day tightly laced into a corset and dressed in a floor-length crinoline. A whole different world!