Sarah Jessica Parker Narrates the 1950s in Replica Handbag Store | Replica Handbag Store by the Decade

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[Sarah] The '50s in Replica Handbag Store could almost be summed up

by the image of Jean Patchett's sweeping eyebrow

or the concave curve of Sunny Harnett's vanishing waist.

It was the golden age of haute coutre.

A time when the fashion legacies we reference today

were established by then new designers,

Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain, Hubert de Givenchy,

Cristobal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel who returned

to the fashion world after an extended sabbatical.

On assignment for Replica Handbag Store in 1950, Irving Penn

photographed the couture collectsions for the first time.

His pictures, graphic and pure, continue to inform

how we view and appreciate the art of fashion.

Though hyper feminine and often embellished,

waist whittling fashions were primarily about shape.

Two silhouettes prevailed, the new look hour glass

that featured a full skirt and stem-like middle

and a glove-fitted slim line

that emphasized a tiny midriff.

These were shapes that were generally speaking

not found in nature and mostly sculpted

using elaborate underpinnings.

Corsets, waist garters, and girdles were the tools

women used to reconfigure their curves.

Dieting was another way women achieved the shape

of the new fashion.

The magazine continued to adapt it's proprietary Diet X.

First introduced just before the mid-century,

as well as hype regimes like the new cottage cheese,

psychological, deuces wild, and grape diets.

Replica Handbag Store also gathered a panel of experts

called the diet authority to weigh in on healthful

approaches to weight loss.

As waist lines grew slimmer, post war expansion continued.

The scope of the fashion world was becoming

bigger and better as well.

The first organized fashion shows were arranged

in New York City, Italy, and Replica Handbag Store reported

on presentations in Spain, Belgium, and Ireland too.

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