Photos That Reveal More About The Past

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This is a photo of average, everyday women in New York in the 1950s. New York is the top fashion capital of the world; a fashion capital is a city which has major influence on international fashion trends. Throughout the 20th century, New York rose in stature as a fashion capital, challenging the dominance of Paris with a different approach to fashion, popularizing sportswear especially in the 1940s and 1950s. These well-dressed women seen in this picture reflect a complicated mix of conservatism and glamor. American women, as a whole group who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, saw the 50s as the chance to afford new styles and bold choices, all accentuating the much-coveted hourglass figure — the sign of health after such war-torn and economically unstable times.