Oglethorpe University - Yamacraw Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Knit sweaters and narrow skirts become the rage in the 1950 ' s for girls who admire Lana Turner, the Sweater Girl. Conservative, double-breasted suits and neat, creased trousers characterize the men ' s style of the 1950 ' s. Ankle strap shoes make their first showing in the 1940 ' s. FASHIONS 1 1

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Oh What They Wore! Dress styles have changed a great deal through Oglethorpe ' s history. With an all male student body at the school ' s opening in 1 835, the dress was typi- cal of the period with dark suits, top hats and capes. From this point onward, Ogleth- orpe ' s dress styles basically followed trends in the country ' s fashion. We had flappers in the Roaring Twenties, Sweater Girls in the Fifties, bell-bottomed jeans, mini- skirts, peasant dresses and long hair through the Sixties and the Seventies. Og- lethorpe has seen changes in style, an evolu- tion that has brought us to dress as we do now. Men in the 1800 ' $ dress in dark suits, often with striped pants. Accessories include capes and top hats. Women ' s dress in the early 1920 ' s is char- acterized by large hats, calf-length skirts and wraps made of fox — the entire fox! The 1930 ' s bring in feminine flower-print dresses with drooping skirts, tilted hats worn over carefully curled hair, and gloves. Later in the 1920 ' s women ' s hemlines rise higher, revealing rolled stockings. Hair is cut short and is shingled. 10 FASHIONS

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12 FASHIONS The Rolling Stones are models of men ' s fashion in the 1960 ' s, including tight pants, worn low on the hips, brightly colored shirts and shoulder-length hair.