1950s Fashions

Clothes rationing had ended by 1949 and by the early 1950s women in particular wanted dresses and skirts made with a huge amount of fabric to make up for the meagre amounts they had endured during the war. At the opposite extreme, pencil skirts and three-quarter-length trousers meant women's profiles were either skinny or voluminous with no middle ground.

Men's suits became narrower, straighter and less fussy. Most men opted for conservative grey suits and did little to stand out in terms of fashion. Instead of wearing three piece suits all day long, men would dress for business in the morning and later change into something more comfortable.

Hats and Hairstyles

You simply weren't properly dressed without a hat (and gloves for women). Anyone who's watched Mrs Maisel will know no outfit was complete without the matching hat, and these ranged from something we might class as a fascinator all the way up to floppy, wide-brimmed sun hats. More decorative than functional, few of them would protect the wearer from even the lightest shower, so an umbrella was another essential accessory.
For men it was normally a trilby, or the wider-brimmed fedora, with the occasional flat cap - usually in tweed aong the hunting, shooting and fishing brigade. At the beginning of the decade, hair for both men and women was mostly short and easy to take care of. Long hair was almost exclusibely for teenage girls, invariably swept up in a ponytail.
Only at the end of the decade did men's hair become more bouffant thanks to the influence of film and pop stars like Elvis and Tony Curtis.

	Teenage fashion emerged, with girls wearing poodle skirts, swing skirts with petticoats, pencil skirts or pleated skirts. Button down blouses with a cardigan or a preppy twin set were commonly seen on young girls.
Boys wore bomber jackets, Hawaiian shirts, varsity cardigans and blue denim jeans.

Thanks so much to the following sites for their awesome research.
https://revivalvintage.co.uk/blogs/news/guide-to-vintage-1950s
http://bloshka.info/2019/04/07/1950s-of-fashion/