30 Cool Photos Show Fashion Styles of Gentlemen in the 1950s

Slim fitting suits, skinny ties, Letterman jackets, bowling shirts, saddle shoes and chunky glasses defined the 1950s guy’s wardrobe.

Jocks wore letterman jackets, blue jeans and Converse high tops. ’50s nerds set a new fashion trend with horn-rim glasses, high waisted pants, and pocket protectors. Teddy Boys in England reintroduced style from the 1900s.

Take a look at these cool photos from Steve Given to see what gentlemen often wore in the 1950s.

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25 Found Photos Show What House Interiors Looked Like in the 1950s

The 50s style is a great era for interior design ideas.

The colors used in the 1950s were mostly pastels. These included soft pink, mint green, butter yellow, baby blue, and turquoise (similar to the popular current turquoise). Red and other bright colors were eventually added for dramatic decors.

Another popular color scheme was known as the Scandinavian colors. These include earth colors, such as brown, gray, and tan. The overall décor focused on these muted.

Wallpaper was a popular décor and often used in foyers, kitchens, dining rooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms.

A set of cool photos was found by Mark Susina that shows what house interiors looked like in the 1950s.

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This Glamour Bonnet Provides Vacuum to Aid Complexion, 1941

Not a deep-sea diver, but a beauty-parlor patron in the vacuum helmet. How do you breathe? Or are you expected to hold your breath during these treatments?

Some persons believe a mud pack is the answer to the search for a beautiful complexion, others think massage will do the trick, but Mrs. D. M. Ackerman, of Hollywood, California, has decided that reduced air pressure is a good treatment. So she has devised a “glamour bonnet” like a diver’s helmet with which the atmospheric pressure around the beauty seeker’s head can be lowered.

The effect is similar to what a person feels who climbs a high mountain or flies high in a plane, and Mrs. Ackerman claimed that the reduced pressure stimulates blood circulation and thus aids the complexion to attain its natural beauty. A window has been installed so the customers can read during treatments.

11 Yesterday’s Failed Ideas Are Today’s Great Inventions

When a new idea comes along, people often don’t know what to make of it. That’s why so many inventions begin as light diversions and reach the development stage only much later, when applications finally suggest themselves. In this view, though necessity is still the mother of invention, whimsy is just as assuredly its father.

Here, a look back at when today’s technologies were way ahead of their time:

In 1928, a woman dried her hair with a big, intimidating contraption; now she can use a handheld device. (Photos: Left, Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Right, imagetwo/iStockphoto)

The “Phrenometer” brain-wave detector dates to 1907. Now Japanese companies are developing less immobilizing versions to provide alternative controls for video games. (Photos: Left, Topical Press Agency/Getty Images; Right, Honda)

Pedal-powered stilts were a whim back in 1930; today, mechanical legs from the Japanese company Cyberdyne help disabled or elderly people walk. (Photos: Left, Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Right, Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images)

Wintertime tanning under UV light was tried in the 1940s but remained very rare for many years after that. Now tanning is a huge commercial business, with tens of thousands of often-compulsive customers. (Photos: Left, Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images; Right, Okan Metin/iStockphoto)

A wired hands-free phone headset in 1950 still kept you tethered to the wall, but today we’re all wireless and hands-free. (Photos: Left, Al Barry/Three Lions/Getty Images; Right, William R. Minten/iStockphoto)

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45 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of Singapore in 1971

Singapore is a sovereign island city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Straits of Malacca to the west, the Riau Islands to the south, and the South China Sea to the east.

Singapore is widely regarded to have an incorrupt and meritocratic government, with a fair judiciary and strong rule of law. One of the five founding members of ASEAN, Singapore is also the headquarters of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat and Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) Secretariat, as well as many international conferences and events.

Singapore is also a member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, East Asia Summit, Non-Aligned Movement and the Commonwealth of Nations.

Here below is a set of amazing photos from gcosserat that shows street scenes of Singapore in 1971.

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16 Wonderful Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Nagoya, Japan in the 1950s

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is Japan’s fourth-largest incorporated city and the third most populous urban area. Located on the Pacific coast on central Honshu, it is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan’s major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, and Chiba.

In 1610, the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, moved the capital of Owari Province from Kiyosu to Nagoya. This period saw the renovation of Nagoya Castle. Nagoya was proclaimed a city in 1889, during the Meiji Restoration; it became a major industrial hub for Japan. The traditional manufactures of timepieces, bicycles, and sewing machines were followed by the production of special steels, chemicals, oil, and petrochemicals, as the area's automobile, aviation, and shipbuilding industries flourished. Nagoya was impacted by bombing from US air raids during World War II.

After the war, Nagoya developed into a major port and transport center. The Shinkansen high-speed line connecting Tokyo and Osaka converges on Nagoya. Nagoya is served by two airports: Chubu Centrair International Airport in nearby Tokoname, and Nagoya Airfield, home to Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. Nagoya remains an important center for the automotive, aviation, and ceramic industries, hosting the headquarters of Brother Industries, Ibanez, Lexus, and Toyota Tsusho, among others.

Below is a small collection of wonderful color photographs that capture everyday life in Nagoya in the mid-1950s.

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Stunning Photography by Man Ray in the 1920s and ’30s

Born 1890 as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American visual artist Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.

Stunning portrait photography by Man Ray in the 1920s and 1930s

Ray produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer.

Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called “rayographs” in reference to himself. He died in Paris in 1976 from a lung infection at the age of 86.

Take a look at these vintage photos to see stunning work of Man Ray from the 1920s and 1930s.

Kiki Drinking, 1922

Portrait of André Breton, 1922

Rayograph, 1922

Noire et blanche, 1926

Simone Kahn, 1926

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