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Close The Door

The Days of Three Martini Lunches

The Fifties conjures up images of June Cleaver, women declaring freedom by way of dishwasher, and postwar economic constraints affecting fashion by making it extraordinarily uniform through the burgeoning mass marketed ready-to-wear industry. At least that's what the Fifties look like in the photographs. Had an odd thing happened after the Liberation? Women were able to drive their own cars, and had the right to vote... but most of the fairer sex chose to 'wear clothes that bore nostalgic echoes of the Belle Epoque.' Women were granted choice and a lot of them chose Gone With The Wind. more...

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