Beach fashion 60s. Swimwear in the USSR. Pin-up swimsuit
Many women are looking forward to the start of the beach season and are preparing hard for it. To purchase a new swimsuit for an amateur follow fashion trends are taken quite seriously, because it is this wardrobe item that will help to make a splash.
This year, designers pay special attention to retro-style swimsuits, which are very popular among stars and ordinary fashionistas. The unique decor and variety of styles will allow women to choose the most suitable model of this beach accessory.
Features and main benefits?
For several years now, designers have been stubbornly looking for inspiration and ideas among the creations of the legendary fashion designers of the 50-70s. Modern fashion designers rely on the creations of such famous personalities as Coco Chanel and Louis Reard to create new collections of swimwear.
It was they who gave impetus to the reorganization of women's beach fashion at the time. Thanks to them, revolutionary swimwear models were born that were open enough for the beach, but at the same time had the ability to hide the flaws of their owner.
Retro swimsuits are characterized by the following features:
- High-waisted panties add grace to the girl's forms, effectively emphasizing her silhouette. Many sets are equipped with a special slimming zone that can smooth out small figure imperfections. In addition, this part of the swimsuit is able to emphasize the beauty of women's legs and visually make its owner taller.
- As a top, retro swimsuits provide a bandeau or bras with rounded cups, interconnected in a feminine alliance. It is also possible that there is a push-up, which will effectively lift the chest and make female forms more seductive.
- For donuts or prudes, modern designers produce one-piece retro swimsuits. They are additionally equipped with tightening zones or a built-in soft corset. There are models that are equipped with an elegant skirt along the bottom edge, which will stylishly emphasize the elegance of the legs and make the image the most flirtatious.
- Retro swimsuits are most often created by fashion designers in two-tone colors.
Unlike other styles, retro design adds elegance to the product. In addition, despite a certain degree of closeness, such models look very piquant and are able to make the forms of their owner quite seductive.
Popular styles and types
There are a huge number of varieties of retro-style swimsuits and their modifications.
Pin-up swimsuit
Clear lines that outline the bust and waist of their owner, combined with a deep neckline, make such products ideal option for girls and women with a beautiful figure. Such models skillfully combine grandiose spectacular details with the shape of a one-piece retro swimsuit that emphasizes the silhouette.
Products of this direction were previously the prerogative of celebrities and such famous film stars as Marilyn Monroe, who skillfully placed accents on their figure and hid its flaws under the corset base. Currently, such swimsuits resemble a bodysuit made of a denser material, which is decorated with interesting details, which make the image even more seductive and piquant. Pin-up swimwear has become a favorite element of the fashion model and singer Dita Von Teese's wardrobe.
Who will fit?
Women with absolutely any figure can afford such products. Thin girls with the help of a pin-up model will be able to emphasize their breasts and a flat tummy, and puffs will be able to hide the imperfections of the waist and piquantly fit their shapes.
Separate swimsuits 50-60s
The women's beach fashion of the 50s was not yet ready for sexy monokinis or spectacular thong panties, but sought to emphasize the girl's forms most vividly. Designers deliberately focused on the neckline, lifting the chest with a push-up and decorating the cups of the bodice with various flirty details. Panties of a separate swimsuit were made on a high or medium waist.
The beach fashion of the 60s became more daring and relaxed. Panties were made miniature, and the bra most clearly emphasized the chest of its owner and was sewn on thin straps or without them at all. The relaxed fashion of those years inspired modern designers to create incredibly spectacular and elegant beach accessories that can draw the attention of others to their bold owner.
Who will fit?
Separate swimsuits with high-waisted panties will suit both women with large forms and thin girls. More open models can afford only perfectly built women.
Color palette and print options
The most classic retro swimwear option is the black and white palette. The absence of bright details makes the owner of such a swimsuit the main “decoration” of the image and does not distract attention from her.
An elegant and sought-after black and white print is polka dots, which femininely emphasizes the girl's shape. Modern designers often prefer complex geometric prints.
Until the 60s, it was difficult for us with swimsuits for girls, many on the beach wore only panties, no one even thought about pedophilia! The girls already had breasts, but the top was most often not covered - this was not accepted. Little children generally sunbathed naked, it was considered good for health, I have such photos.
But it was different in different families, I remember my wrinkled swimsuit with a skirt, I was five years old then. Many wrote that their mothers and grandmothers in the 50s-60s-70s sewed swimsuits themselves, from chintz, satin, and what they could get. The magazines had patterns and instructions. In the post, I posted pictures from Western fashion magazines and photos of actresses, you look and think - why our women were deprived of such things all these years, who in the USSR did this interfere with ???
used the old knitted dresses and blouses - in general, everything that was good. Since the USSR categorically did not buy bikinis, I also sewed them myself.
I forgot to write that knitted swimsuits were in fashion, many knitted them themselves and it turned out very well.
What unpleasantly surprised me in the comments is the opinion that our women are terrible. It must not be forgotten that since the 1920s a massive influx of peasants to large cities, to factories and factories began. Peasants everywhere looked about the same - physical labor, work in the field form similar types of appearance.
Thinness and harmony were almost never appreciated, if you look at Western and American photos of farmers and peasants of those years, you will see very similar faces and build. So it is incorrect to compare our everyday photos with Hollywood stars and fashion models, I bring them for the sake of fashion trends and styles.
3. 1930s-1934 swimsuits
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Summer of 45
24. Susan Peters and her Great Dane
Lovely Academy Award-nominated movie star Susan Peters in 1943
25. Bathing Beauty Poses at Shoreline
'40s woman in a swimsuit, this one against what appears to be a foggy shoreline.
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There are swimsuits that will adorn any woman, but there are those that disfigure.
Buttoned satin bras complete with black men's underpants - you saw a lot of such photos in the first post, and so they walked with us until the 70s!
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38. In 1953, young Brigitte Bardot appeared on the Croisette in a bikini.
39. Jane Mansfield.
The advent of the bikini has caused a lively discussion around the world. In Catholic countries such as Spain, Portugal and Italy, bikinis have been banned. Tourists who dared to appear in it on the seashore were escorted back to the hotel by the Spanish guard.
They won a “place in the sun” with great difficulty and scandals and were quite modest, by modern standards, just low panties.
In America, bikinis took root with great difficulty, the country was then sanctimonious and such liberties were condemned.
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In Europe, bikinis spread in the 60s.
The USSR did not buy bikinis on principle until perestroika, as well as low panties - someone at the top considered such models obscene.
46. Italy, early 60s
47. Germany
48. Our girls themselves shortened their panties from above, but the most fashionable bikinis, with ties, had to be sewn by ourselves.
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52. Odessa, 1967.
Almost like my swimsuit from the late 60s! Only my stripes went diagonally: white, blue and red, the bottom was red, and the belt was blue. The stripes are not very well located here - they are moving apart on the chest.
Production of the GDR, elastic with cups.
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In the 70s, it was possible to buy imported swimwear from us, but very beautiful, with difficulty.
Bikinis were still sewn by themselves or remade from high panties, they were only on sale just below the waist:
53. I am currently undergoing renovations, I can’t scan my photo in my favorite swimsuit, where the bodice was connected with a jumper to the bottom, I’ll post it later.
54. For the 1980 Olympics
In the comments they wrote how hard it was to get even a Yugoslav swimsuit, I’m not even talking about imported ones from capitalist countries, such a “criminal luxury” was very rarely on sale.
I remember very well the kilometer-long queues in GUM, they stood all day and often the goods ended before your turn came up.
In “Yadran”, when the deficit was thrown out - even at the entrance there were frames of fences for the queue, people froze for hours in the cold.
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Judging by the photo of a girl in a bikini, these photos are clearly post-perestroika
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Fashion for retro style periodically returns, this is no secret to anyone. However, the 50s and 60s swimwear trend is especially interesting because it came after a long period of very revealing bikinis. Separate with each season became smaller and sexier, perhaps that is why it became an original solution and many liked it. What are they modern models in retro style?
Swimwear in the style of the 50s and 60s: historical and modern
The charm of retro style swimwear is obvious, they allow women to look extraordinarily flirtatious. In the 50s and 60s, there were slightly different standards of beauty: ladies had more magnificent forms, before the fashion for thin fashion models was still far away. Therefore, one-piece swimsuits, as well as high-cut swimsuits, were very successful options: they served the forms of women in the most favorable light.
Modern swimsuits completely copy the styles of their retro counterparts. The characteristically bright color scheme is also preserved. As you know, in those days, pure and intense shades of all colors were relevant. As for combinations, women boldly combined bright colors with each other, creating eye-catching bows. The pin up style, with its flirtatiousness and bold color combinations, was just at the peak of popularity in the 50s and 60s and was reflected in beach fashion as well.
The second theme, which is experiencing another wave of demand in retro swimwear, was the marine theme with traditional solutions in white, red and dark blue. The same colors and combinations are used in the design of modern models. Therefore, with equal probability, a swimsuit of our days can combine elements or have a laconic bright color.
Swimwear in retro style for full
Swimsuits in the style of the 50s and 60s are a real godsend for puffies. If you look at the photos of women of those times, it becomes clear that now many of them would be recognized as not thin enough. Although in prettiness and charm, these young ladies are in no way inferior to our thin contemporaries. In this regard, it becomes clear that retro-style swimwear models were originally created for a figure with more weighty parameters. That is why they look so chic on.
What to wear with swimwear in the style of the 50s and 60s?
Modern fashionistas very often copy traditional retro swimwear solutions, making a bow in a marine theme or in bright clean colors, look at the sets below.
Even without going beyond these two topics, you can create a huge number of interesting beach images. However, today there are much more clothing options, and fashion requirements in relation to and combinations are much less strict. Modern women wear retro style swimsuits with short and, bright , T-shirt dress, skirts and tops. As accessories, bright bijouterie and ethno-style jewelry are used, as well as fashionable . Shoes for comfortable summer bows are most often sandals and slates, sometimes or .
