1950s Fashion Accessories

Video Transcript

"So the last part of any outfit if you're putting it together for a good look, is some really nice accessories. I've been wearing a headband this entire time, and headbands were really big in the fifties, and they continued to be in the next two decades. They really added sort of an ornamentation to what you were doing in your hair. You might also try a nice hair clip. Another big thing in the fifties were hair ribbons. In bright colors on a really nice fabric, this is actually a silk hair ribbon, and it would be tied the same way that my headband was tied before. Sort of in this kind of manner, you can see it here, it still emphasizes the hairs in the front, and this is up here and would have been tied and put down the back. If you can see this is a really nice look. Remember the big hair behind it. So, the last thing I want to talk about, are evening accessories, and I have this really great bag, this is an evening clutch, and it has the shimmer that we talked about, both in the shoes and in the makeup. This would be carried typically under the arm, like so, at a party or an event. And it's very small, it was considered ladylike, the smaller the purse, the better. All you would have in it would be maybe a tube of lipstick, your powder to touch yourself up, and actually, that's probably about it. Maybe a mirror in there. You can see the inside of this is really lined very beautifully. Also it has some of the colors we were talking about in terms of being feminine colors. It's got a nice purple, and a pink here, that would match the shades we talked about in makeup, and for example, the shades in the Chanel suit that we were talking about. So, the last thing that I want to mention also is gloves. Gloves were really, really big. Unfortunately I don't have any here, but you would never leave the house without your white ankle gloves to carry your beautiful purse."