Ancient Fashion of the 1950's

While I take a couple weeks off from making jewlery, let's take a look at the latest random thing I've found on the internet.

It appears British Pathe has been posting interesting clips from its news reel archives for a couple years now and they have enough fashion based ones to have their own youtube channel for them. I'm starting out here with one showcasing costume jewelry earrings from 1955. I'm still impressed by how fast the model changes screwback earrings.

There's at least two that cover 1950s glasses with designs that are way too radical, even for the present. The other one is here if you're curious. I bet there's a few of my classmates that wish they found something this when the glasses project was going on last year.

It starts tumbling into the truly strange with swim cap fashion (shown here) to umbrellas and then probably the wierdest thing to consider:

Dog Fashions. I don't recall the last time anyone gave serious consideration to dog clothing and accessories. I'd like to blame an apparently 1950s obsession with having to coordinate and match everything, but I don't know really.

There's plenty more gold to be had off of the Vintage Fashion channel (can't spoil everything by reposting it here) but don't forget there's also the regular British Pathe channel which has more general news reel footage and links to a couple other sub-channels.

That leads to things like the Dynasphere from the 1930s, which was kind of meant to be the car of the future and whatnot.

Plus footage of the Miss Honeywell "robot" that made the rounds at many technology expos and conventions in the 1960s just before commercially available industrial robots became available, so it it's still in that little dream bubble of how the future was supposed to be. The clip also may or may not have led me to buy a Honeywell branded desk thermometer from a thrift store, it's pretty cool.

Just to get this out of the way, this is a (British?) Pathetone clip thats been on the internet forever showing what 1930s designers thought we would be wearing in the year 2000, in case you haven't seen it before.

And if fashion and vaguely science fictiony things aren't your bailiwick, there's everything from the Hindenburg disaster to Arnold Schwarzenegger winning Mr. Universe in 1969 to how (not) to be a secretary to absolutely grating footage of a "singing" dog.

Alright one more fashion clip, this one's from 1969. It shows off Paco Rabanne's new futuristic designs which are dresses made of unusual materials, and the clip emphasizes the ones made of metal.

Wonder why that material hasn't caught on yet.