America 1950-1959: Fashion Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 51 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1950-1959.

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Topics in the News

Overview

Women's Factory: Femininity is the Key

Hair Imitates Art

Dior and the Full-Figured Gal-Bosom Buddies No More?

Men's Fashions: Gray Flannel Suits

Who Cares?

A Call to Bare Arms

American Designers Take the Reins

Nun Couture

Youth-Centered Fashion

Heartbreak Hairdo

1950s Architecture

Go West

The "Googie School of Architecture"

Suburbia

Architecture: Space and Color

Guggenheim Museum "Neither Communist nor Socialist"

Those Fabulous Cars

1950s Kitsch

American Modern Takes a Bow

Headline Makers

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Chrisitian Dior

Charles Eames

R(ichard) Buckminster Fuller (Jr.)

Claire McCardell

Noman Norell

Mary Quant

Eero Saarinen

Yves St. Laurent

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Frank Lloyd Wright

People in the News

Deaths

Awards

City American Fashion Critics' Award

Return Award

Hall of Fame

Special Awards

Neiman-Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion

Thomas B. Clarke Prize (given by the National Academy of Design for interior Design)

American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Publications

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America 1950-1959: Fashion Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 51 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1950-1959.