1950s Retro Fashion : 1950s Pencil Dress & Skirt

Pencil dresses are a classic 1950 fashion. Learn how to identify pencil skirts and dresses for retro fashion in this free video clip.

Expert: Maia Kushick
Bio: Maia Kushick has written about fashion and related topics in the northeasts largest daily college newspaper, "The Daily Collegian".
Filmmaker: David Pakman

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[Pintucks]

Another 1980s sample garment (like the 80's dress for the 50s presentation)

This is obviously 80s: high waist with pleats! And a classic 80s color too.

Bet it has a plastic zipper.

A REAL 50s skirt may have a waistband, darts and seamline details, length below the knee, and a deep kick pleat, metal zipper and button closure.

Also the fabric would be natural: wool, cotton, silk most often.

[vittoriospibrinelli]

The actual skirts of the time were much tighter, especially twards the bottom. And the waist should not be hidden under a sweater. Still the model/presenter has the full figure that was fashionable in the time before gay fashion designers decided that female models should look like boys (Twiggy!)

Perhaps there will be a revival of the 50s now that it has been found that so many girls get anorexia because they imitate models - so the models are REQUIRED to be more full-figured!

[LexyHaifa]

lol I wonder why she never put on the green skirt! HAHA

[den123mate]

a metal zip,ohh no,they dident get metal zipz till like 1990,i saw a nice dress from zara with a metal zip on show,its a new thing,its not old :) it was of nice of you to say so douhh,haha ur fun

[vittoriospibrinelli]

@Dramactica I'm not - and I'm not a woman. The model is attractive, but it is not like the 1950s - like other commenters have noted. Her bra is very modern too.

There is a lot of alleged 50s and 60s material on YouTube, but very little that really reminds of the time.

[Dramactica]

@vittoriospibrinelli

are you fat?

[sirtinycreep]

That 'pencil skirt' is NOTHING LIKE the skirts they wore in the 1950s. For a start it's not tight enough, and it's not long enough. Pencil skirts were ALWAYS calf length, and the split or vent would be at the back, not at the side as you're wearing.

So you FAIL.

[beanofgreen]

all this womans videos suck. her sixties one is even worse =.=

[amyjeannemac]

LOL at the "real" 50s pencil skirt. I have MODERN pencil skirts that look more authentic than that., which are very high waisted, tight from top to bottom, and come to mid calf. Wear it with some bobby socks, a form-fitting cardigan, and some ballerina flats and you'll have a nice MORE AUTHENTIC 1950s look.

[poko098]

i just wanna put my face in your juggs.

[sirtinycreep]

That is NOT a reto 1950s pencil skirt.

Yours falls at the knees.

Women in the 1950s wore their pencil skirts calf length, with high heels.

[garys737]

nice rack..........................­....