1950s Glamour - Fashion History in the C20th The 1950s moved
Britain from the austerity of the 1940s to the prosperity of the
1960s. Fashion history would never be the same again after the
1950s when teenagers became an emerging fashion voice. A new
consumer driven society was born. The fashionable age of being
between thirty and forty at the start of 1950 was soon knocked
off its pedestal before the end of the decade, by the arrival of
the teenage cult with its own development of style and spending.
Until then, 18 year old girls often dressed and made themselves
up to look as old as their mothers. The fifties saw the breaking
of a mould that has stayed broken as those same baby boomer
adults today strive to look as youthful as possible. The clear
dividing line of the decade was 1956 when the fifties began to
move away from the rigid controls of the 1940's into the more
flexible hedonistic 1960s when youth movements influenced
fashion and lifestyles. 1950s glamour had arrived. The British
1950s fashion scene