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The baby boom of the 1940s to the 1950s also caused focus on maternity wear. Even international designers such as Givenchy and Norman Hartnell created maternity wear clothing lines. Despite the new emphasis on maternity wear in the 1950s maternity wear fashions were still being photographed on non-pregnant women for advertisements. [43]
Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th century Wild West. It ranges from accurate historical reproductions of American frontier clothing, to the stylized garments popularized by Western film and television or singing cowboys such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers in ...
Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed. The main article for this category is 1945–1960 in Western fashion . See also: Category:1950s clothing
In Britain, clothing was strictly rationed, with a system of "points", and the Board of Trade issued regulations for "Utility Clothes" in 1941. [18] In America the War Production Board issued its Regulation L85 on March 8, 1942, specifying restrictions for every item of women's clothing. [ 28 ]
That’s exactly what’s happening here, with actor Isabelle Fuhrman modeling clothes that would be right at home in her new Civil War era movie Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1.
Squaw dresses went out of fashion nationally by 1960, but remained popular in the southwestern United States and also in square dancing and rodeos. [28] When the style was revisited in later decades, the dresses were labeled as "Western wear" and given new names. [29] [30] These dresses are today more often called patio or fiesta dresses. [13]
The so-called "Yellowstone effect" has trickled into fashion, making Western wear like cowboy hats and boots increasingly popular across the U.S. Yellowstone: Western wear is 'going to briefly ...
The Nudie suit, a highly decorated form of western wear. The Ivy League style of simplified, understated suits and casual clothing was popular for young men from the mid-1950s until the end of the 1960s, when it was supplanted by the flared, colorful styles of the peacock revolution and the influences of the hippie counterculture.