My Dream, a retro kitchen!

“Once you understand the nature of color, space and design . . . your home will reflect good planning and radiate a personality only you can give it.” -Better Homes & Gardens Decorating Book (1956)

Kitchen Styles

Colorful

Easy and Maintained

An Open Kitchen

Double Duty Kitchen Island

Pace Setting

Ranch House

Nova  Soctia 

The appliances had character!! 

Stoves

Refrigerators

Other

*I had that chair at my grand mothers house :) kinda neatt*

Dining Table and chairs

Cabinets

Don't forget a retro kitchen is not a retro kitchen without a tile FLOOR!

Retro Toy Kitchen Set!

Retro Baby Names

In the 50's there were some unique names that parents named their children! 

*For starters go on*

<http://www.blogthings.com/1950snamegenerator/>

When I typed in my name: Paige I got

Regina Betty

Top ten Names in 1950-1959

Males James Michael Robert John David William Richard Thomas Mark Charles

Females Mary Linda Patricia Susan Deborah Barbara Debra Karen Nancy Donna

Source: <http://www.momswhothink.com/baby-names/top-100-baby-names-for-the-1950s.html>

Though there are some cool names if you wanna name your kid a retro name in todays generation from Parents Connect :)

Elvis, Connie, Jerry, Etta
Rock 'n' roll—and teen idols—broke on to the scene in the mid-'50s, along with outta-sight names like Elvis, Jerry (Lee Lewis), Etta (James) and Connie (Francis). Let's just hope the resurgence of hip names like this will curtail the onslaught of a bunch of babies named Bieber.

Dick & Jane
Sure, today's kids are down with Dora and Diego, but back in the '50s, Dick and Jane were the coolest cats around!

Ward, June & Wally
TV's favorite '50s family (That's the Leave It to Beaver crew, for the youngsters in the house) was full of fab baby names. Of course, you've got to be careful here—"Beaver" doesn't have quite the same name appeal today that it had back then.

Bud, Buddy, Buster
The "nicknames as first names" trend is as hip as it gets.

Charlie, Sally, Linus, Patty, Marcie, Lucy, Violet
Names from the classic Peanuts comics are still topping the U.S. baby name charts! Heck, even Snoop D-O-Double-G is rockin' a name from thePeanuts gang. (We'd recommend shying away from calling your kid "Pigpen" or "the Little Red-Headed Girl," though.)

Richie, Arthur, Joanie, Ralph
Pay homage to the Happy Days crew with one of these super-keen names! And if your kiddo is particularly cool, consider referring to him as the Fonz.

Want more primo 1950s baby names? Dig these nifty names that topped the charts in the 1950s: Brenda, Margaret, Diane, Pamela, Janet, Shirley,Carolyn, Ronald, Joseph, Donald, Kenneth, Steven, Dennis, Paul.

SOURCE: 

<http://www.parentsconnect.com/pregnancy/preparing-for-baby/baby-names/1950s-baby-names.html>

Mens Hairstyles

Mens Hairstyles!

I made my Prom date my senior year do a "Pompadour Hairstyle" :)

The Pompadour Hairstyle

Ricky Nelson

James Dean

Elvis Presley

Johnny Cash

"Pompadour haircut". The hairstyle was short in the back including the sides and the top left being longer. Then the front being combed up with hair gel/hair grease to hold it back and to show some of that shine! A.K.A Rockabilly

Rock Hudson Quiff Hairstyle

Rock Hudson

This style was best used with a man with thicker hair. The hair has to be cut so that it is longer in the front than in the back. The side of the mans hair would be slicked back using gel to hold it back and the hair in the front is combed straight up then is flipped either to the back or the front! 

(Similar to Pompadour)

Conservative Hairstyle

 Don Draper "Mad Men"

Jimmy Stewart

This was a more professional look for older men. They would have their hair cut short and applied gel to practically glue to their head. To style they would have hair parted and combed straight over to the other side and same in the back. Yes gel was used; cream was not necessarily used. 

Slicked Back Hairstyle

Bela Lugosi

Hair cream was used and was applied liberally to plaster the hair to the mans head, and heir hair was combed to the front and back also the side and to the top.

Duck Tail Hairstyle

Tony Curtis

This style was styled by parting the hair on one side, combing the top over to the other side,and combing the sides straight back to then have them both meet in the middle of the back of the head. Hair cream was used to hold the hair completely in place!

Other styles

Source about the selected men hair styles: 

<http://coolmenshair.com/2011/10/1950s-mens-greaser-hairstyles.html>

Brief Women's Fashion!

'1950's Women's fashion!

{The trends in the 1950's were}

Pencil Skirts,Mini Dresses

Fancy Wide Ballerina Skirts,

Taped Waists & bust-enhancing bodycases. 

Bathing Suits!

Women rarely wore a two piece bikini that being said one piece bathing suits were mostly worn. The bathing suits as zippers in the center back of the bathing suit or on the side seam. The one top style of a 50's bathing suit was the apron style which is on the left 

Below girls wore things called Bathing caps. Girls wore them to make sure their hair did not get wet, because hair was so important back in this time. May of the hair-caps had decorative abstract things on them like flowers, rubber spikes and petals!

Dresses

Fashion in the 1950s was to dress smart. To have a "tailored look" 

Also adding gloves were part of the dress attire. 

Dresses with matching Jackets

Types of Skirts

The were called the swing skirt! 
It was a popular style that had many forms and the poodle skirt.

Pencil Skirts

The pencil skirt was to attain an hourglass body shape. This was for a more mature crowd, NOT teenagers.

Shoes