Tweeds swept the field for autumn: sophisticated pebbly tweeds which came to town in a big way especially in black and white.Fabrics and designs somewhat eclipsed in recent years, but now staging a spectacular come-back, were chiffon, crepe, lace and all the prints: notably dark motifs on a dark ground, blurred flower prints, and a striking series of prints with fur markings which brought prints well into the winter picture.In colors the chief basic shade was grey, especially in its darker reaches; all the sherry colors from pale to dark; the butter colors, the blonds.There were innumerable greens, ranging from palest almond through olive to bottle and fir green. The triangular “trapeze” shape was introduced next, but still considered too extreme for many women.However, women were very excited about the new looser fitted clothing and rushed to buy them in the spring, but the fad died midway through the summer.Designers also made more effort to accommodate various shapes and sizes of women. The long sleeves were also lace, and this combined with the full skirt and sweeping train on Kelly’s tiny frame combined in an effect that was simultaneously modest, elegant, and incredibly romantic.It is a look that has been copied hundreds of times over, perhaps most famously in recent years being used as inspiration for Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen’s dress for Kate Middleton’s royal wedding dress in 2011.Grace Kelly’s dress was designed by MGM costume designer Helen Rose, and the dress and wedding in Monaco with its many celebrity guests was paid for by the film studio – in return for the whole event being filmed by them. The jumper became just as important as the blouse and skirt. Many were able to do so by giving tailored sleeves a small rounded bump at the top.Casual clothes were more popular than ever before. Those less favored in features consoled themselves with little flat top-of-the-head pancakes or modified pill-boxes, or big-brimmed summer straws: another example of fashion’s leaving a wide freedom of choice to the individual.The short evening dress divided into two main types. The bulky knit coat sweater and full-length coat were popular daytime choices.Furs were still still popular in 1956, mostly as collars on tailored suits, evening dresses and coats.As one fashion writer put it, 1957 was the year in which Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (at age 74) became “an adjective in her own time.” Sort of like “Googling,” Chanelisms had been creeping back into fashion ever since the lady emerged from retirement several years before, but in 1957 they were ubiquitous.Short, non-fitted suit jackets often strung with brass buttons and pockets, almost always opened to show the blouse inside; sleeves peeled back to show a shirt’s cuffs; magnificent fakes such as yards of “pearls” and colored stones looped round the throat, or a jeweled Maltese cross winking on a lapel; Bretons perched on the back of the head; pull-overs that matched a jacket’s lining; jerseys, tweeds, brocades; her famous lace evening dresses — all were stamped with elegant nonchalance.Chanel’s open-jacket policy made display pieces of blouses. No longer a suit’s silent partner, but often the focal point of a costume, the “blouse beautiful” came on the scene.Even the man-tailored shirt showed signs of softening. Soft and often brightly colored, high quality fabric was in high demand.The costume look was in full swing in 1954. ! Beginning the year at an average height of 13 inches above the ground, they suddenly rose to 14 to 15 1/2 inches from the floor.This was typical of fashion though. Thistledown was stressed in woollens and tweeds. Fashion history would never be the same again after the 1950s when teenagers became an emerging fashion voice. In America, Norman Norell was raising eyebrows with his innovative evening wear that combined “day” fabrics like tweed or cotton with luxurious silk and fur.The wedding of the year (or even of the Century, some called it – though Grace Kelly herself called it “The Carnival of the Century”) was that of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco, in 1956.Her dress was made from 25 yards of silk taffeta and used antique rose-point lace and pearls.
This page covers the origins of the greaser style, including pictures.Teddy Boys were from London's East End, and they were known for their fashion sense. When skirts remained narrow, as did the majority, jackets took to flaring out above them from a once-more nipped in waist, and tunics with bell-shaped peplums cut across their pencil straightness at mid-thigh level.Pleating and tucking, seaming and buttoning, wrap-overs and scarves, all took this diagonal slant.
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