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The process of producing the 1950s-60s paper dress materials was a bindng technique similar to felting. [27] In the spring of 1967, paper yardage became available for home-dressmaking, with sewists advised to use Butterick's, McCall's or Vogue Couturier dressmaking patterns with deep armholes. [27]
The 1960s brought us The Beatles, Bob Dylan, beehive hairstyles, the civil rights movement, ATMs, audio cassettes, the Flintstones, and some of the most iconic fashion ever. It was a time of ...
Examples include the mini skirt, culottes, go-go boots, and more experimental fashions, less often seen on the street, such as curved PVC dresses and other PVC clothes. Mary Quant popularized the mini skirt, and Jackie Kennedy introduced the pillbox hat; [1] both became extremely popular. False eyelashes were worn by women throughout the 1960s.
Judy's was a chain of clothing stores, based in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. Marcia Israel (Mrs. Lawrence Israel, later Marcia Israel-Curley) founded Judy's in 1946 and ran it until 1989 when she sold it to Laws International of Hong Kong for $31 million. [1] Israel-Curley died in 2004. [2]
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Suddenly we're pining for the 1950s and '60s. Okay, not in terms of technology, movies or even politics -- but throwback photos from the early Emmy Awards have us longing for the days of classic ...
Read on for all of the wild things that were acceptable in the '60s, including pregnant women smoking, people not wearing sunscreen, and unsafe cribs. Parents exposed kids to secondhand smoke and ...
The knee-length skirts and dresses were the most oversized items of this 1950s. The introduction of new fabrics, including Terylene, Orlon, Banlon, Acrilan and Poplin, allowed for new fashion styles to be both created and introduced. Among these were the "wash-and-wear" sweater, the permanently pleated skirt, and the "drip-dry" skirt.