What Clothes Did the Teens Wear in the 50s?
1950s fashion was conservative and gender-specific by today’s standards. 1950s pink satin dress with hat image by DSL from Fotolia.com In the 1950s, fashion was more conservative and gender-specific than it is today. Teenage girls were expected to wear skirts and dresses in all but the most casual circumstances. Teenage boys had a little more freedom to be casual, wearing dungarees (or jeans) in the style James Dean and Marlon Brando, popular screen actors of the day. The 1950s marked the first decade that teenagers were called teenagers, and companies increased their marketing of clothing to that demographic. Typical Teen Girl Attire Teen girls in the 1950s often wore petticoats under gathered skirts with cardigan sweaters. It was common to wear cardigans backwards so the buttons were not visible from the front. They wore bobby socks and saddle shoes or, for the more grownup teens, stockings and modest low heels. For casual situations, teen girls wore pedal pushers or dungarees rolled
