Mad Men 1950s Retro Style for Women

Mad Men 1950s Retro Style for Women

The women's clothes in the TV series look easy to wear and deadly sexy, but a quick look at a few 1950s clothing ads reveals that women's waists were way smaller than the average 21st century woman's upper arm Cheap Louis Vuitton Export Sunglasses. Not to worry!Women in the back then wore industrial strength undergarments that helped them to maintain that fabulous 1950s retro style--and so can you!To cultivate that killer Mad Men style and fit into sexy retro clothes, you'll want to start by investing in a few basic items. These items were once called 'foundation garments', because they form an impermeable concrete-like base upon which a completely imaginary woman could be constructed Ray Ban Sunglasses Wholesale.You'll need: You can breathe later, when you are done knocking them dead, oh retro Goddess.All kidding aside, one positive fashion contribution made by the series Mad Men is an expanded understanding of what the 1950s was for women. In the past, 1950s parties attracted dozens of Fonzie characters in leather jackets and tight jeans with their poodle skirt, cardigan, and pony tailed girlfriends.No more!Suddenly we remember that Coco Chanel was still a star in the 1950s, the stilleto pump was invented and embraced, and waistlines were as teeny as they'd been since the days of Scarlet O'Hara. If the 1950s were not comfortable, clearly they were sometimes glamorous.Options for retro clothes with that Mad Men style a la Betty Draper include:Vintage clothing from the 1950s is easy to find but hard to wear Cheap Gucci Sunglasses. The sizes run small and most of the styles have a very defined waist in and are constructed from unforgiving fabrics. If you wear anything except a single digit size, you probably won't be able to squeeze into much if anything from that era.The good news is, you don't have to.Contemporary clothing with similar lines and better fit is widely available, and you can still punch it up with some hot, authentic 1950s accessories.Watch for these vintage accessories to add a little Betty Draper flair to a contemporary outfit: