Vogue in the Nineteen Fifties diverse vastly from the beginning to end. Brief, non-fitted suit jackets typically strung with brass buttons and pockets, nearly always opened to indicate the shirt inside; sleeves peeled again to show a shirt’s cuffs; magnificent fakes corresponding to yards of pearls” and colored stones looped around the throat, or a jeweled Maltese cross winking on a lapel; Bretons perched on the back of the pinnacle; pull-overs that matched a jacket’s lining; jerseys, tweeds, brocades; her well-known lace night clothes — all were stamped with elegant nonchalance.
Following Christian Dior’s launch of the “New Look” collection in 1947, girls entered a decade of complete elegance and glamour in the ’50s. Polyester and rayon had been used to make every kind of clothes, from blouses and males’s shirts to dresses and suits. Many clothes had been sleeveless and the cardigan acted as a fast, usually glamorous cowl up. For day, cardigans were typically worn with a brief sleeved matching sweaters and had been referred to as twin units.
Only a minority of ladies might afford to wear couture designer garments in the fifties and the majority of women wore mass produced items. Belgian singers Jacques Brel and …
