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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.
The peacock revolution was a fashion movement which took place between the late 1950s and mid–1970s, mostly in the United Kingdom. Mostly based around men incorporating feminine fashion elements such as floral prints, bright colours and complex patterns, the movement also saw the embracing of elements of fashions from Africa, Asia, the late ...
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
From the late 1950s until the mid 1960s, Ivy League clothing was considered desirable mainstream apparel for American middle class adults. In Britain during the mid and late 60s, the Mod subculture combined the latest Italian fashions with the attire worn by the heroes in contemporary American films such as Steve McQueen , James Dean or Paul ...
The International Trade Organization (ITO) was the proposed name for an international institution for the regulation of trade.. Led by the United States in collaboration with allies, the effort to form the organization from 1945 to 1948, with the successful passing of the Havana Charter, eventually failed due to lack of approval by the US Congress.
Work of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers showcased in the 1949 film Maytime in Mayfair; Ness, C., (2021). Couture clothes for show: the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers promotional designs for British cotton, wool and synthetic fibres, 1940s–1960s. History of Retailing and Consumption. 7 (2): 193–216.
The European Free Trade Association (FEAT) is established in 1960 as a trade bloc-alternative by the Outer Seven European countries who did not join the EEC. Four important ISO (International Organization for Standardization) recommendations standardized containerization globally: [41] January 1968: R-668 defined the terminology, dimensions and ...
Man About Town, later About Town and lastly Town, was a British men's magazine of the 1950s and 1960s. Press Gazette described it in 2004 as the "progenitor of all today's men's style magazines". [1] It was the customer offshoot of the well-established weekly trade magazine for tailors, The Tailor & Cutter.