35 Candid Snapshots of Women in the Kitchen in the 1960s and 1970s
In the 1960s and 1970s, the wife would be seen as the stay at home keeping the house in order, bear children and make sure everything was fit for her husband to come home to. The impression was the man…
Beehive Hairdo: The Women’s Popular Hairstyle Throughout the 1960s
The beehive is a hairstyle in which long hair is piled up in a conical shape on the top of the head and slightly backwards pointing, giving some resemblance to the shape of a traditional beehive. It is also known…
Life of the U.S. in the 1950s and ’60s Through Fascinating Kodachrome Slides
The United States in the 1950s experienced marked economic growth – with an increase in manufacturing and home construction amongst a post–World War II economic expansion. The 1950s in the United States are generally considered both socially conservative and highly…
When Big Hair Roamed The Earth: The Hairstyle That Defined The 1960s
Not too much to say that big hair style roamed the earth during the 1960s. The bigger the hair, the more beautiful. It was a general trend for ’60s women. Check out these lovely snapshots to know the reason why…
Poodle Skirts: The Favorite Fashion Trend of Young Women Since the 1950s
A poodle skirt is a wide swing felt skirt of a solid color displaying a design appliquéd or transferred to the fabric. The design was often a coiffed poodle. Later substitutes for the poodle patch included flamingoes, flowers, and hot…
39 Snapshots Prove That Jeans Made the 1950s Girls Look So Cool
Invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873, jeans marked culture of the last 140 years probably more than we think. Jeans are undeniably a fashion mainstay, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, jeans are one fashion…
Long Before the Popularity of Car Racing Video Games, Slot Car Racing Was a Popular Fad in the 1960s
Slot car racing was born in the early 1900s, but the hobby languished until the 1950s, when English entrepreneurs began to build electrified tracks and controllable scale-model cars to race on them. The new system spread to America. By the…
American Teen Fashion 50 Years Ago – Interesting B&W Pictures of High Shool Students in the US during 1960s
Their hairstyles and uniform clothes were really interesting! These B&W vintage pictures show American high school students in the 1960s.
35 Vintage Photographs Capture Scenes of High School Typing Classes From Between the 1950s and 1970s
During the 1950s and ’60s typewriting was taught mostly in elementary schools, and there was a widely held conviction that typewriting skills might fast-forward a student’s acquisition of the English language — especially spelling. Through typing, students tend to become…
Hot Pants: One of the Sexiest Fashion Styles of All Times
Hot pants, or ‘short shorts’ describe extremely short shorts, which may be worn by women or to a lesser extent, by men. The term was first used by Women’s Wear Daily in 1970 to describe shorts made in luxury fabrics such as…