Sunday 13 January 2013

Teenage Dresses

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Teenage Dresses Biography
Teens Clothing
What teenage girl needs an excuse to add new clothes to her collection? Sure it's sometimes essential, like if you're heading back to school, starting a new job, or sometimes you just want something for going out and partying at the weekend. Our Teens clothes department has the very latest fashion trends in girls clothing. You can mix and match styles as you go, creating your very own look.Whether you're looking to pick up one off pieces of girls jewellery to complement an existing outfit, get kitted out with one of this seasons latest girls dresses or stock up on wardrobe essentials such as girls jeans or girls leggings, you'll be able to find what you want in our selection of clothes for girls. Whether you're looking for something smart or casual, something hot or something quirky, we've got it all. We take inspiration from the latest styles and trends from fashion, pop and celebrity. Fashion moves fast, and by making hot girls fashion available at low prices, we can help you move with it. From sporty to glam, indie to bling, punk to pretty - whatever style of girls clothing you want, you can make it work for you.

The 1950s moved Britain from the austerity of the 1940s to the prosperity of the 1960s.  Fashion history would never be the same again after the 1950s when teenagers became an emerging fashion voice.  A new consumer driven society was born.  The fashionable age of being between thirty and forty at the start of 1950 was soon knocked off its pedestal before the end of the decade, by the arrival of the teenage cult with its own development of style and spending.  Until then, 18 year old girls often dressed and made themselves up to look as old as their mothers.

The fifties saw the breaking of a mould that has stayed broken as those same baby boomer adults today strive to look as youthful as possible.  The clear dividing line of the decade was 1956 when the fifties began to move away from the rigid controls of the 1940's into the more flexible hedonistic 1960s when youth movements influenced fashion and lifestyles.  1950s glamour had arrived.

The British 1950s fashion scene used opportunities presented by the Second World War to capture some of the American market.  The Incorporated Society Of London Fashion Designers had designed prestige garments throughout the war.  The raw materials of Scottish tweeds and English worsted suit materials were renowned as being of exceptional quality.  The wools were also used by the French and the British did everything they could to promote the fine materials with fine designs.  The result would be 1950s glamour.

Fashion for women returned with a vengeance and the 1950's era is known mainly for two silhouettes, that of the full skirt and the pencil slim tubular skirt, with both placing great emphasis on the narrowness of the waist.

The Festival of Britain Exhibition of 1951

The Festival Of Britain Exhibition of 1951 held at the South Bank on the River Thames in London produced over 6000 products many of them clothing, accessories and dress fabrics.  The items were seen by the visitors as luxury items, because they were in colours, designs and fabrics mostly never seen before.

The British government had the materials, but to help rebuild the economy they quietly traded the goods abroad and did everything they could to promote the fine materials.  They achieved this by depriving the British people access to the materials for as long as they possibly could.

For the many visitors it was both an uplifting and depressing experience all at once, as almost all the goods were destined 'For Export Only'.  The festival highlighted a Britain on the edge of becoming a huge consumer society, soon to follow trends and glamour first set in America.

If you are involved in 1950's party celebrations you can see the simple everyday clothes real children and adults wore on the 1950's page of photographs of ordinary people.  You will also find more useful information in the 1950's page on sewing patterns.  The page also show  a 1951 Festival of Britain carnival street party

British fashion history records that Marks & Spencer produced the best ready to wear chain store clothes in the fifties and quadrupled their profits at the same time.  Their clothes were not the least expensive, but they were the best value for money.  The quality became so high in the 1950s that limits were set on production as everyone wanted the affordable stylish Paris inspired 1950s glamour.

In the late fifties, early sixties, a popular style was the knitted sweater dress with crew, shirt tab front or cowl necks and made from Orlon or Lambswool.  It was a warm garment in a Britain still not centrally heated and it was made universally popular by Marks & Spencer.  Beneath the sweater dresses women wore long line bras and girdles that covered the individual thighs.

The higher standard of manufacture of utility clothes had ironed out pre-war problems and new skills had been gained that enabled designers, manufacturers and chain stores to produce quality goods to a high specification.  After the war mass produced ready made clothes were far removed from the shoddy workmanship of pre-war days and any stigma attached to early ready made clothes was forgotten once royalty bought ready made clothes.

Marks & Spencer literally became part of the nation's fabric in the following fifty years so that today ordering worldwide from them via the internet is a simple operation for fast delivery, but at present to addresses in the UK only.
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