MEMORY LAINE: Vintage Dresses of the 50's/60's....an everyday lifestyle

Being a baby boomer, I vividly remember my mom, my sisters, and I wearing these types of cinch waist dresses for our special occasions in the late 50's/early 60''s.  Life wasn't really the perfect Ozzie & Harriett/June Cleaver/Donna Reed prototype that we watched daily on our TV shows, but let me tell you younger ones, it was close, so very close.  Feminine dresses were simply "in", and pretty much whenever and wherever.  The casual pure cotton styles were the norm for going grocery shopping,  to weekly beauty appointments, (oh yes, they were weekly back then if you could afford it), to church, to a movie, or to a school PTA meeting.        

   We wore the fancier fabrics to bridal and baby showers, mother daughter sorority luncheons, club meetings, graduations, communions and baptisms,  school dances, social occasions, etc. I am happy to see that the romanticism of the 50's & 60's eras is alive and these fashions are currently trending again!   Although I am not the teeny-bopping youth I once was, I will embrace the retro styles as they emerge and I will proudly wear them with a few more pounds added to my frame.  I plan on visiting my local vintage fashion shops as I'm sure I will find a few of these treasures again.   Join me darling, won't you?  We can do Tea after....








I smile when I think that I never, and I mean never, saw my Grandmothers in anything but a dress. That's just they way they lived. If they weren't going out for the day then a floral "housecoat" would do just fine. But never pants. Actually I will take that back. There was one winter day in the 60's when I was a teenager and my Grandma took the bus over to our house. We were all sitting in the kitchen when she walked through the door. She had on a wool coat, gloves & boots, her kerchief, her pocket book on her arm, and a pair of sweat pants sticking out from under her dress. I kid you not, the room became dead silent. She looked at all of us - we looked at her and everyone burst out laughing. She laughed herself so silly, and it was a moment I will never forget.  I hope today you've enjoyed your trip with me down Memory Laine!