Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #1950s

Most recents (13)

A chance this could be #1970s but more likely #1980s as shoulder pads very exaggerated. Has such disco diva vamp glamour. So I mixed a bit of vampire and disco as inspiration with a contemporary character! It's in pure silk and by CACHÉ another fab American label #vintagefashion
Another piece very 'vamp' glamour. Have a few drop dead gorgeous #goth dresses by Sarah Whitworth whose label Deadlier than the Male based Hyper Hyper Kensington High St. Ghost, Pam Hogg also there
Ah #1980s..such parties..how we danced like creatures of the night to Bauhaus
Read 29 tweets
Everlasting Love! This thread will take you back to 'Swinging Sixties' with some #vintagefashion items #1960s. First one c 1968 , year of the song by 'Love Affair' this coat by UK brand started 1791, famed for their cotton #1950s dresses. this #Mod #maxi coat in wool & sheepskin
This one is a very sophisticated early #1960s brown velvet 2 piece that was at some point revamped with a 'psychedelic' lining. Did Emily rob mum's closet and upcycle, or did mommy take a trip? #VintageFashion It will have certainly moved to early Pink Floyd....
Will You Still Love Me...Tomorrow...
This beautiful petite coat is made in fine mohair with fab sheen, velvet trim inc wing cuffs, & dates from early #1960s. Reminded me of a 60s air hostess coat (Pan Am had beige some points) I once had, hence theme of the video! #vintagefashion
Read 28 tweets
(1/23) This thread is mainly addressed to my #German followers, but it could also be interesting for those who always wanted to know how Germany could become the most culturally leftist country on the European continent. Accordingly, this thread is a #political #commentary by me.
(2/23) It is about the historical personality of the first post-war chancellor, Konrad Adeneauer. I also would like to finally dispel a myth that still plagues German conservatives, by which I do not mean recationaries, but all those who do not want to destroy their own country.
(3/23) This myth is the myth of the "good old", #50s and #60s, #CDU (Christian Democratic Party) and the question of what role a post-war #Germany could have played if #Adenauer and his party had not made completely wrong decisions about essential political directions.
Read 24 tweets
1/ #Trains #Trainspotting #TrainThursday #Railways - Who likes trains? I always have... Here are some from Chattanooga, Tennessee at the Tennessee Valley Railroad and Museum! #TN225
2/ #Trains #1940s #1950s #forests - Admission gets you on to a 40 min. train ride through the forest, Missionary Ridge Tunnel and bridges in a vintage train... Each compartment is different, but all are from the 1940s to 1960s or so IIRC.
3/ #STEM - @tvrail's turntable operation at the second station at the "end" of the ride is great. It takes ~15 minutes. Then we all re-board for the 20 min. ride back to the first station. Nicely done and worth the $22/person tickets!
Read 7 tweets
#BornthisDay 9 July 1929, #actress, soft porn star (that's woke the boys up a bit) Miss #Argentina 1955, & #StyleIcon , Isabel Sarli. I'd love to show you some fun gifs but can't ha ha...look up one of her famous cult classics The Insatiable Widow 1984
1/3


Image
Image
Image
Image
Isabel Sarli in

Intimidades de una cualquiera (1972)
Fuego 1969
La mujer del zapatero (1965) & Sabaleros (1959)

2/3 ImageImageImageImage
In a mink, and a bathing suit, then in Los Días calientes 1966 in headscarf & Una mariposa en la noche, 1976 with romantic partner and director/producer/actor Armando Bó .
3/3 ImageImageImageImage
Read 6 tweets
#BornthisDay July 9, 1927 #actress & #StyleIcon Susan Cabot. Star of mainly #westerns such as Gunsmoke with Audie Murphy, also remembered for sci fi Wasp Woman & Machine Gun Kelly with Charles Bronson. Tragic story later in life...
1/4
#vintagefashion #1950s
Susan Cabot in Roger Corman's Machine Gun Kelly. After her acting career, she restored and sold on vintage vehicles herself.
Susan Cabot in Gunsmoke 1953, and Ride Clear of Diablo 1954 with Audie Murphy. Though westerns, the wardrobe fab in both - Rosemary Odell.
3/4
Read 6 tweets
Thread: For my weekly cinema column in Mirror/TOI Plus, I've been writing a series of pieces on #trainsinIndiancinema. First came this column, which opens with the Lumiere Brothers but zooms quickly into Avtar Kaul's strange and vivid award-winner #27Down: trishagupta.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-ou…
For the second piece in the series, I looked back at what the railways meant to British colonial India - and Anglo Indians - through the Ava-Gardner-starrer #BhowaniJunction: trishagupta.blogspot.com/2021/04/home-o…
Third column in my #trainsinIndiancinema series suggested that in the #1950s work of filmmaker #BimalRoy, trains were a lifeline -- but simultaneously harbingers of doom. trishagupta.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-life…
Read 7 tweets
“What did I like? Having grown up in the 1950s this book really grabbed me. Having two bases in the town made it a good chance that a girl would run into boys from military families at some time or another. I happen to have had four boyfriends. Four because they moved so often.
Most of them were transferred after their dad’s had finished training. Two of them shared a lot of the things that went on at home and one of them was so close to Dave’s life!” - DD Gott - Donadees Corner @williamAGlass3
Read 5 tweets
“As Good as Can Be may be primarily a coming-of-age story, but it is also quite the page-turner, ...
@WilliamAGlass3
Subscribe to the author’s newsletter here bit.ly/BlogWilliam
Buy a copy on Amazon here bit.ly/AGACB Image
and it’s easy to get caught up in the Knight family’s tragic story, one largely written by the family’s alcoholic patriarch, a man unwilling ever to put his wife and children above his own military ambitions.
It’s one hell of a ride.” – Sam Sattler
Read 4 tweets
“As Good As Can Be is a thoroughly enjoyable read. The novel takes place during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s and follows a boy, Dave Knight, and his escapades."

@WilliamAGlass3
Subscribe to the newsletter here buff.ly/3pt4DCH
Buy a copy - buff.ly/3rscRwX Image
It brings back so many memories for those of us who grew up during these turbulent years. This novel should be considered historically correct fiction.
The language is occasionally raucous, but so characteristic of the time that it wouldn't seem correct without it. Try it - I think you will like it; especially if you grew up during this era.” – Rosanna B.
Read 4 tweets
@naomiosaka The Haitian Revolution 🇭🇹✊🏾🇭🇹
@naomiosaka January 15 1860 | African American Migration to Haiti 🇭🇹
@naomiosaka Joseph Cadet Jeremie direct descendant of explorer Jean-Baptiste Dusable who founded #Chicago in 1779. 🇭🇹 #haitianhistory #1950s

He was an author, Haitian Supreme Court justice, Dean of #Haitian Journalists & decorated by Pape Pius XII. #dussable #jeanbaptistedusable #haiti
Read 7 tweets
#BornthisDay 23 March c1905 #StyleIcon #actress one greatest stars 20thC #cinema, #JoanCrawford.
Winning Academy Award famous role #MildredPierce many other #filmnoir dramatic & comedic roles. Starred movies #1920s- 1970s #vintagefashion 1/8
#BornthisDay 23 March c1905 #StyleIcon #actress #cinema, #JoanCrawford. Started as body double Norma Shearer, after winning lots Charleston competitions. Not afraid being seen as flapper "If you want to see the girl next door, go next door." #vintagefashion #1920s #1930s 2/8
#BornthisDay 23 March c1905 #StyleIcon #actress #cinema, #JoanCrawford. Her early roles endeared her to legion female fans to whom she epitomized independence & glamour they aspired to. #1920s #1930s #vintage #fashion #style 3/8
Read 13 tweets
✨The combination of Walt’s rush to have Disneyland ready by opening day (July 17th, 1955) & the 101°+ weather caused women’s heels to sink into the asphalt of Main Street, USA. 👠🔥☀️
✨Bonus: Here’s a picture of Main Street on opening day! (Photo credit: University of Southern California) Image
Read 4 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!