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Show Fashion Trends Varied in 1951 Poodle Hair-Do Was Year's Style Oddity The past 12 months was the year In fashion when: Skirts became full again, and then blossomed fuller than ever before. The fuller the skirt, the tinier the bodice and waistline. The poodle gave his "all" to fashion: fash-ion: poodle cloth and the poodle hairdo fuzzed everybody up. Fabric stole the fashion headlines: pure silk of the "stand alone" variety va-riety was a must in every smart wardrobe; wools took on wondrous new thick and downy textures; Tweed became a city-dweller. The "poor look" in shoulders balanced bal-anced the richness of fabrics. Some designers called it "the shrug shoulder". The fitted coat stepped to the front of the fasion stage. Women's minds remained happily changeable as always: H"ats were almost nosed out of the picture by the little cotour veil, then got bigger, big-ger, slantier, be-jeweled, and more glamorous than ever. Everybody loved long hair with chignons, then suddenly clipped down to a windblown wind-blown or poodle bob. The stay-at-home dress became as important a fashion as the party dress. Girls got out their eyebrow pencils and tried to look like doe-eyed Cleo-patras, Cleo-patras, but most gave It up and decided de-cided to stay natural. The skirt length wavered upward, then downward, finally decided to stay where it was at YOUR most becoming length. Spain was a strong fashion Influence Influ-ence and the early Nineteenth Century Cen-tury Empire and Restoration periods peri-ods guided us to higher waistlines and bigger sleeves. What went underneath caused almost al-most more talk than what you wore outside: we had petticoat fever in a big way, we went mad for nylon nighties, we demanded crinolines and petticoats and silk brocade linings to our suit skirts. |