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