I would love to go back to the fifties

I am drawn to almost everything from that time period. Music and films, home styles and furniture and fashion that still looks amazing and iconic 70 years later. Peplum tops with pencil skirts and dresses with crinoline skirts, make any girl feel pretty and feminine. Retro hair styles and cat eye sunglasses. Even the underwear was sexy for pin-up burlesque look. I'd happily live in the fifties and thrive I think. It's a time when men were men and women were women.

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Lucyy · 22-25, F

I'm both not white, and a not a man, so I'll pass on the double oppression lmao. Returning to times of 'get to the back of the bus' is a hard no. I find it kind of startling how many white people seem okay with that tbh. This was literally the time of Rosa Parks being arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white man, and even BEFORE the time that it was considered acceptable for white adults to stand and scream death threats to a little black six year old for attending a better school- because that little girl simply wouldn;t have been ABLE to attend to begin with.
And even if I'm okay with being a housewife, being forced to do so because a man essentially owns me? Hard pass lol.
I think 'let's bring back some of the fashion of the fifties' is a much more appropriate statement that I could get on board with. I'm not particularly okay with being segregated because I am considered the bottom of the barrel- even in more progressive places. 1958 was the year my grandfather was denied housing because he was black- it was literally WRITTEN into the contracts back then, even in places like Washington state.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Lucyy I should have stayed that as well. I started my medical school in Va in 1963, there were colored and white bathrooms!

AmmieBell · 18-21, F

@Lucyy That was where my mind went too lol. I think it was in the 60s, maybe the 50s, that my Native-American family faced the EXACT same issue. I don't think I could live in a time where forced segregation was just so... Normal?? Like the dresses were cool, fashion in general (Idk if beehive hair was the 50s or 60s, but let's skip that lol), it was a whole aesthetic... but not just going BACK to the 50s haha. Sounds kinda suffocating lol

Patientlywaiting · 46-50, F

@Lucyy I understand that. The racism gets a massive no from me too obviously. It was never acceptable and there are many other things I would not want to see a return to, capital punishment being an obvious one too.

Lucyy · 22-25, F

@Patientlywaiting Capital punishment still exists in a lot of states, but I assume it was way more wide-spread back then. I guess it;s just hard for me to look past the oppression of the 50s even just to make a generalization of how enjoyable they may have been because, really, it was ONLY white men NOT being oppressed. I think you'd have to be in a ultra-white, traditional community in order to not see oppression all around you- but that is not a community I would have ever been welcome into lol
I do like the aesthetic, though, as was previously noted in a reply. The dresses, the way childhood is depicted in that time period, the simplicity. But I also know that going back to the best of it wouldn't be worth enduring the worst of it when you have stories of oppression that were so widespread, common, and simply accepted. But the dresses? On point.

Lucyy · 22-25, F

@Patientlywaiting I do have to agree with Ammiebell on keeping the beehive hair in the era of Hairspray though. I have not the time, patience, money, or balance for all that.

Patientlywaiting · 46-50, F

@Lucyy not to mention the flammability issue! The Beehive is a sixties look and they can keep it. I used to be a hairdresser and I remember my college tutor telling us a story about a woman who had used sugar water instead of hairspray and a fly flew in and had laid eggs so she had maggots in her hair. 😱

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Patientlywaiting We all have our hair stories, on head and below. Working in the ER, I think I have seen about all of it. If anyone is really interested.

Patientlywaiting · 46-50, F

@samueltyler2 I d love to hear if not too gross lol. Maybe one for PM's lol

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Patientlywaiting In one case, a young woman thought that she was reaching for Nair, and grabbed Gorilla Glue. Do you know what happens when that gets wet, and also how well it sticks?

Patientlywaiting · 46-50, F

@samueltyler2 ouch! How could you mix those up???

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Patientlywaiting you would be surprised what people do. Crazy gour for eye drops is common.

Patientlywaiting · 46-50, F

@samueltyler2 is that why they call it crazy glue lol?