50s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads (Icons Series)

I love this book! I bought it mainly because I was doing a period piece in one of my classes and needed some refrence as to what people wore back in the 50s! I'm an avid fan of the era, so this is great insight to the bizzare ads (children's perm products, bermuda shorts with little hearts for men???!)

I love period advertising, and I love fashion, so this seemed like the perfect book...until I got it. The book was subtitled "Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads", so that's what I expected. What I got was 95 pages of men's clothing -- tons of ads for ties and underwear -- 9 pages of children's clothing, and 70 pages of women's "fashion and beauty". There were more pages devoted to men's hair products than women's, if I counted correctly. I didn't order this to look at Hopalong Cassidy cowboy boots...I ordered it to see FASHION AND BEAUTY ads. VERY disappointing!!

Ordered this cute cook for a girlfriend of mine who's a fashion freak. The book itself is unique and cool, but it arrived with a big cut down the middle of the front of the book! Couldn't even give it to her. I'll hang on to it, but sure hope no one else receives one in that condition.