1950's Shoes and Accessories

Cat Eye Glasses

Cat eye glasses, fake flower corsages or pins adorned with, cherries, flowers, or autumnal foliage, juliet caps, and embellished headbands were often matched with gloves. 

Gloves were worn both short and long throughout the fifties. Lucite purses were also a fad (plastic box purse). Bakelite accessories were still being worn.

Hats of all sort were worn during this period.

Spike heels/stiletto heels were worn and were both closed and open toed, the saddle shoe popular for both men and women it was white and black and looked like a sneaker, ballet slippers with white socks were also worn during this time.

Scarves

Scarf around neck and Pony Tail

Pillbox hat with Veil

Opera Gloves

Floral Corsage

Long Gloves

Marilyn Monroe 

wearing Cat Eye Glasses

Bakelite Accessories

1950's Shoes

Marilyn Monroe wearing Stilettos

Saddle Shoes

Lucite Purse

1940's Shoes and Accessories

Shoes and Purse 1944

The heels of the forties became rather thick and sturdy with laces, buttons or buckles and were generally closed, spectator shoes were popular (two toned shoes).

Snoods were also popular, a sack that was worn pinned on the lower part of the head over and around the hair but not over the head usually crocheted, knitted or netted also sometimes attached to hats.

For jewellery women wore bakelite accessories (plastic which could be carved into different shapes and colours were able to be mixed, very inexpensive), some which were home made.

Artificial flowers, veils and feathers adorned most hats but during this period many women chose not to wear hats on a regular basis but when they did the pancake or cartwheel (hat with very wide stiff brim and a low crown often made from straw). In this decade hats started to become unusual. Also fashionable were scarves and bandanas.

Linda Darnell wearing a scarf

Jennifer Jones wearing patriotic colours

Ingrid Bergman

Susan Hayward

Lauren Bacall

Bandana

Carole Landis

Chanel 

Jennifer Jones Wearing a Pancake Hat

Cartwheel Hat

Susan Hayward

Cartwheel Hat with Veil

Hat with Ribbons and Veil

Hat with Veil and Artificial Flowers

Unusual Hats

Linda Darnell wearing Artificial Flowers