At home, women set about the day cooking, cleaning, and tending to children. Her housewife dress was a full-skirted swing dress in simple cotton solids, small prints, chec… See more

Hosting a dinner or leaving for a night out on the town, a woman changed dresses again into a swing or sheath dress made of richer materials such as silk, taffeta, lace, damask, an… See more

For very special occasions such as attending a ball or theatrical performance, a short cocktail dress wasn’t enough. Long, floor-length ballgownsor long, sexy tube gowns wer… See more

Chop off the top half of a dress and you are left with a classic 1950s skirt. Full skirts that were made of one large round piece of fabric were called circle skirts. They were worn over s… See more