Fashion in the 1950s

The 1950s: The teenage lifestyle is born, and with it come bobby socks and boppers, poodle skirts and pompadours.

Swatch Watch Swiss watch company Asuag-SSH scored a hit in March 1983 with its low-priced 'Swatch' range of brightly coloured watches. Ernst…
Men of the Cloth - The low-down on four of London's… John Simons Little did he know it, but in 1965 the clothes stylist John Simons was about to start the skinhead movement…
Valley Girls When it happened we can't say . . . fer sure - All of a sudden everything the 'Vals' did…
Swinging London "Swinging London" is a generic term coined by Time magazine in April 1966 and used to describe the fashion, music, cinema…
Heroin Chic Heroin Chic was a look popularised in mid-1990s fashion and characterised by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes and…
Big Hair In the extremes of the 80s, the "bigger is better" concept came also to hair. To follow the fashion precept…
Teddy Boys The original teen fashion rebel of the post-war era, the "Teddy Boy" paved the path of rebellion for all hooligans…
Rudi Gernreich Like his art world contemporary Andy Warhol, Rudi Gernreich was a modern visionary and shrewd press manipulator. He guaranteed himself…