...Fashion much like everything else evolves and reflects on what is happening at the time. Before the 1950’s, society had struggled for two decades with wartime restrictions and rations. It was a new era and everything was looking up. With all the new technology including credit cards, buying clothes and keeping up with fashion was easier than ever. After World War 2 there was a push for women to get back in the home and do the traditional woman duties of raising children and looking after the house. Advertising portrayed that housewife look for women. Fashion in the 1950’s for women emphasized femininity in the form of soft shoulders, stiletto heels, wrist-length gloves and full, billowing skirts. Even working women's outfits’ hinted fragility, with pencil-slim skirts and little hats with veil and feathers. Men’s fashion was clean cut and conservative. Suits and penny loafers were favored by men. Hats became less popular for men and they started wearing their hair in a crew cut. Fashion for teens also completely changed in the 1950’s for the first time they stopped imitating their elders and invented a new type of dress and way to express themselves. As rock and roll gained popularity so did sexual appeal. Rock and roll artists like Elvis really emphasized this change in teenagers. Elders saw rock and roll as a danger, but the youth loved it and they became more rebellious than ever before. Leather jackets, black jeans, ankle boots and checkered shirts became the fashion trend...
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...Globalising World “ Popular Culture” ( 1950s ) Fashion In the 1950s, America exerted a huge influence on Australia through cinema. Ripple-soled shoes, leather motorbike jacket, long jackets and thick-soled shoes. Young women would wear tight-waisted skirt with the equally tight jumper influenced by Marilyn Monroe Short back and sides haircut for young men were replaced by long styled hair. Young men would have their hair slicked back with grease and this was influenced by Elvis Presley. Black sweater, chunky costume jewellery and turned-up pants were worn as casual clothes when going to the cinema. A lot of fashion that were popular in Australia came from Hollywood through the movie industry. American fashion dominated the youth scene....
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...Which fashion model a thin, rail like figure popular in the 1960's? Fashions and styles very much different from the 1950’s, you can say, the styles were much bolder and revolutionary from the proper and prim attitudes and styles of the 1950’s. Have never been accepted prior to the 1960’s were popular, like the mini-skirt and form fitting dresses and skirts. Another fad or style that became popular in the 1960’s was being thin, especially for females. In order to wear the popular mini-skirts and other form fitting dresses, many women had to be thin enough. Thinness became popular with comp the 1960’s brought on a whole slew of fads, fashions, and styles very much different from the 1950’s. You can say, the styles were much bolder and revolutionary from the proper and prim attitudes and styles of the 1950’s. Clothes that would have never been accepted prior to the 1960’s were popular, like the mini-skirt and form fitting dresses and skirts. Another fad or style that became popular in the 1960’s was being thin, especially for females. In order to wear the popular miniskirts and other form fitting dresses, many women had to be thin enough. But the bigger reason why thin was becoming more and more popular was because of models like Twiggy, a popular model in the 1960’s known for her extremely thin appearance, showcasing their extremely thin bodies. All of sudden, thinness became popular with company executives, the entertainment business, and society as a whole. It was...
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...1950’s Men and Today’s Men The gender role theory “posits that boys and girls learn to perform one's biologically assigned gender through particular behaviors and attitudes” (Boundless, 2015). The environmental causes of gender roles and the impact of socialization are emphasized by the gender role theory. The social role theory postulates that the social structure is the underlying force in determining gender roles. The social role theory also states that the division of labor between two sexes within a society drives sex-differentiated behavior. The division of labor is what created gender roles, which eventually, led to social behavior that could be defined as being gender specific in nature. Over the years, these roles would transform to adapt to the expectations of society’s current males. One popular trend of gender roles that has been commonly studied is workplace roles. For decades, men were viewed as the sole provider; therefore, the wife’s duties did not exceed past her home. She was in charge of caring for her husband, their children, and their home. Men were supposed to go to work every day to provide for their family, adequately meet all of their needs, and be someone that his children can look up to. In the 1950’s, men were coming back from war, and the women had filled the positions left open by men going off to World War II. During the 1960’s, known as the hippie era, gender roles began developing in a more neutral and equal manner, “but media still tried to...
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..." " " " " " " " " The Liberation Of Women Through Fashion by Hubert de Givenchy " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " Selvi Thangarajah Arth 701: Contemporary Art Professor Holly Goldstein Spring 2015 Thangarajah 2 " In the 1950-60’s when WWII had just come to an end and the men were returning home from war, the women were being forced out of their industrial jobs. The baby boom was at an all time high and women were expected to quit their jobs and be full time homemakers1. It was during this time that Hubert De Givenchy was just starting out on his own as a couturier in Paris and was know to have a minimalistic and unconventional style. His aim during the 50’s and into the 60’s was to help empower women through their clothes and break down the feminine ideals of grace and beauty, abandoning the stereotypes associated to them. He allowed for the flexibility of the female identity through his multiple creations of contrasting silhouettes that were rather rebellious and unconventional at the time that it was being made. Hubert De Givenchy was born on 21st february 1927 in Beauvais, France. Hailing from a very prosperous family, Hubert went on to attend college at Beauvais before moving to Paris to pursue his dreams of being a couturier. In 1944 he joined the couture house of Jacques Fath while attending school at Ecole Des BeauxArts2. Later in the 40’s he took a series of jobs as an assistant designer—first with...
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...Elvis Presley: A Revolutionist Gage E. Trollinger Elvis Presley is the single most significant figure in rock and roll history. He completely changed music and he also changed entertainment through his influences. In the 1950’s Presley’s music broke past these racial barriers. He allowed Caucasian and African Americans listen to the same type of music. Elvis challenged the social and moral values because his music and his dance moves created a new generation. By 1955 Elvis had gone to a national sensation. People quickly fell in love with his style of music and dancing, Critics loved and hated him at the same time altho girls were in awe with him. The fact that Elvis shook his hips, thrust his pelvis, and danced passionately on stage, turned parents against his music. Elvis posed a threat to the values and morals of wight american cicity. Presly “set in motion a style of music that dominated the world for the rest of the century. It was the beginning of youth culture, the breakdown of sexual inhibition, and the end of racial segregation.”...
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...At the end of World War II, popular culture in Australia have been strongly influenced by America during the 1950s, and overtime became richer than ever where communications and transport technology was advancing rapidly. Not only this but America have also influenced Australians in music, radio, television film and fashion. Australian music during the 1950s was heavily influenced from American music, where individuals fell in love with American-style rock 'n' roll. In 1955, American Bill Haley's hit song ‘Rock Around the Clock’ spread throughout Australia, and the radio broadcasting station were soon full of other American acts like Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. During this time, Australian performers like Johnny O'Keefe was impacted by these overseas trends. During this time, radio stations increasingly relied on individuals and their new 'teenage' thirst for American music. Radio announcers in the 1950s often used American accents to make...
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...free", women have to fight for their equal rights. Reformers, such as Fanny Wright, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer and many more have done so through their actions, and speeches. Nevertheless, in recent times fashion has become an available source of expression. It is a powerful tool to be able to be seen and not heard--but still get the message across. Since its humble beginnings, fashion has oftentimes just existed, but in the past century, it has existed as a form of expression, art, and liberation Now, women are still being influenced and challenged by the media and their peer, but slowly, more and more women are standing up for themselves. Before the early to mid 1800's, women were forced to squeeze into corsets made of whalebone, steel or buckram. It gave them the figure eight profile which resulted on a number of health problems, including their organs and body to become deformed. Over the corsets, women wore heavy layers of petticoats despite the weather. (Small Business Administration 3) Dresses emphasized the bust and hips, attempting to make women look very voluptuous. With the spread of commercialism, hundreds of new beauty products were introduced. These ever-popular restricting fashions were later outdated. Lucretia Mott, Stanton and many more reformers started a Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls that dealt with women receiving further rights. Anthony collaborated with Stanton to write...
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...Models/Supermodel then and now Models have change throughout the years; going from, models with a skinny figure and thin waists to how they are now. They were very different in the past then today’s generation of models. In today generation models can be small or plus size. The standards for models: is to be tall because being short doesn’t qualify, for the most part market places don’t want short models. Industries now have plus size models and there have been agreements and disagreements on how the fashion industry sees plus sizes models; how the public sees plus size models. Models have changed dramatically over time. In the 1895, there were pin-up girls as models...
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...Culminating Music: Popular music entered an era of "all hits", as numerous artists released recordings, beginning in the 1950s, as 45-rpm "singles" (with another on the flip side), and radio stations tended to play only the most popular of the wide variety of records being made. Also, bands tended to record only the best of their songs as a chance to become a hit record. The taste of the American listeners expanded from the folksinger, doo-wop and saxophone sounds of the 1950s to the Motown sound, folk rock and the Invasion led by The Beatles in 1964. The Los Angeles and San Francisco Sound began in this period with many popular bands coming out of LA and the Haight-Ashbury district, well known for its hippie culture. The rise of the counterculture movement, particularly among the youth, created a market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s#Music Clothing/Fashion: Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt which became one of the most popular rages in the late 1960s. Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s#Fashion The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket...
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...The Classic Black Leather Jacket Julie Conlon Julie.conlon@carestreamhealth.com April 15, 2012 585-709-8948 In today’s fashion world the black leather jacket is a must with fashion designers, and comes in countless styles. Everyone, men, woman and child are known to wear the black leather jacket; you can dress it up or dress it down. That was not always the case with the black leather jacket; at one time in history the black leather jacket reflected a statement of the bad boy, the rebel, the greaser, and gangs. The black leather jacket stemmed from the original World War II Brown Bomber Jacket. Pilots were issued a standardized brown bomber jackets also know as the A-2 flight jackets. These jackets were made out of horsehide and lined with a heavy fleece, designed to keep the pilots warm due an open cockpit and changing climate conditions experienced while flying. Another flight jacket that was issued in the service was the B3 Bomber Jacket made out of sheepskin. These bomber jackets became poplar with not only the pilots, but all different divisions of the US Military. Military men could have patches stitched on they jacket representing their rank and your division. Wearing theses bomber jackets not only represented a strong military man, it represented power and prestige. Of course the bomber jacket became even more popular with a 1957 movie “Night Passage”, staring Jimmy Stewart, wearing a brown bomber jacket. But when the movie “The Wild One” hit the movie...
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...The century began with modesty and ended with a more risqué society. This change in morals changed the way humans presented ourselves in the last century. Women’s fashion, makeup, and hair changed throughout the century based on various factors. In the 1900’s to the 1920’s, women’s clothing changed. For the first time, women’s skirts came above the ankle (Fashion Forward). Less fabric was used than in previous centuries. Dresses gradually showed less of a woman’s bust and began to become a straight line (Fashion Forward). Trail, busts, corsets, and hoop skirts were removed from fashion and each year skirts became shorter (Fashion Forward). Women began to experiment with bold prints and colors as time went on (Fashion Forward). Makeup was not worn during this time. Hair was often worn in hats or in styles like Gibson’s Girl and buns (Adventures of the Reluctant Housewife: Popular Hairstyles of the 20th Century)....
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...said. (Wilson and Horyn, 2010) He has been countering controversy as headlines hailed him since 1992, the year when he first burst into the fashion world. Even though Alexander McQueen was often misunderstood, he was successful in establishing his own fashion label that is now internationally acclaimed and desirable without compromising his approach towards fashion. From the start of his career Lee made his viewers with the feeling of awe or wonder or fear or terror with raw presentation of depicting bleak of history and anarchic politics. ”I want people to be afraid of the women I dress”, Lee said. (Bowles, 2010) “Many designers who reference history display a form of historical seamlessness in which the past is perfectly and nostalgically recreated in the present. With McQueen, however, the reference is not as comfortable; the suture lines of his much-discussed “surgical” tailoring techniques are still visible as uneasy grafts of history onto contemporary garments” stated Dr Jonathan Faiers who is the reader in fashion theory at Winchester School of Art. (Faiers , 2011) Background Information Le alexander McQueen was born in 1969 and was the youngest of six children; his father was a taxi driver and his mother a social history teacher. He spent his formative years drawing and reading books in fashion as he knew he would be a fashion designer from an early age. He left school when he was 16 with a simple O-Level and completed his A-level in Art at night school. Then he was...
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...----------------------- Ten New Creations of The 1950’s So today I am going to tell you about the top ten inventions made in the 50’s, in order from least favorite to favorite (at least in my head). And staring at last place is the Barbie Doll that was invented in 1959, come on man no one cares about a stupid doll. But right in front of Barbie we have the Microchips invented in 1959 also, mico means small now why would you want something small? It’s like I always say bigger is better. Now in 8th place we have the Laser made in 1958, sure there really isn’t any point to it right now but I belive it has pointless. Right after 8th place we have 7th place and claming that spot is a way to prevent babies! It’s the Oral Contraceptives, or in other words birth controle, made in 1954. Clamming the spot right before Oral Contraceptive is the Bar Code, I have a fealing that’s going to be something big in the future. Now in 5th place and made in 1958 is the Hula Hoop , keeping children occupied so you can have some alone time with the wife. Now in 4th place is this thing called McDonalds Corp. invented in 1955, and you can just tell it is going to be big. Next is something to keep you skinny it’s the Diet Soft Drink made in 1952. Then in 2ed is the Hover Craft invented in 1956 now who doesn’t want a flying car? Last but not least in 1st place is MR. POTATO HEAD from 1952. [pic] THE BEATNIKS The beatniks are people those people that are changing the 50’s. They are the people that are rejecting...
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...1940’s Fashion What is fashion? Fashion is whatever is considered popular during a certain time frame. The things that can be popular are things like clothing, food, decor, and behavior. In the 1940’s there was a lot going on such as the war, this lead to the fashion in the 1940’s to be classy and rugged. In the early 1940’s things were good, until one dreadful day Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This introduced America into the world war. The war made life hard for many people, even well-off designers. This lead to many European designers to head for America. Fleeing to America didn’t solve all their problems, because the war effort made it difficult to use certain materials, because they had restrictions on them.(1940...
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