Our image of the 50's is epitomised by summer dresses with full skirts filled out by petticoats like these. The wonderful 50's dresses shown below are all original 50's images. 

Petticoats are back - View a wonderful article from 1948 on the latest petticoat trends! Or have a look at an article from 1960 on the latest lingerie of the period, Underpinnings, with the new American fabric Lycra just beggining to appear.

Girdles and corselettes were very much the flavour of the day, I am not sure we would apply the term lingerie! The 50's waste was achieved by the use of this structured lingerie.

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