This is very cool. I think of the 20s revival in fashion being more of a 60s thing, it's odd to see it in 1953. I wonder whether a coed school would have featured it, or if the ethos appeals more to women?
So true! Putting aside the 30-year cycle, it doesn't really seem like folks in the 1950s were too interested in 1920s nostalgia (maybe because it was so subversive).
I also get the feeling that this was a uniquely feminine interest — there's talk in the yearbook about how Cedar Crest students in the 1920s championed women's suffrage, and it seems like their memory of the 1920s was very wrapped up in the "liberation" of their sex. Who knows, though!
This is very cool. I think of the 20s revival in fashion being more of a 60s thing, it's odd to see it in 1953. I wonder whether a coed school would have featured it, or if the ethos appeals more to women?
So true! Putting aside the 30-year cycle, it doesn't really seem like folks in the 1950s were too interested in 1920s nostalgia (maybe because it was so subversive).
I also get the feeling that this was a uniquely feminine interest — there's talk in the yearbook about how Cedar Crest students in the 1920s championed women's suffrage, and it seems like their memory of the 1920s was very wrapped up in the "liberation" of their sex. Who knows, though!