Classic or Dud: People who still dress up like its the 50's

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/14658916?wid=3000&qlt=70&fmt=pjpeg

Good people.

^^

there are much worse

Oh, well, that image is dud. I would be on board with more people dressing like this:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/37/b3/7f37b32c25aa0be80843b4449af8b6f0.png
or this, though:
http://www.ivy-style.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2e50616734f95f1b_large.jpeg

dressing up is fun

it's not fun to make fun of people for wearing harmless costumes anymore
they're not hurting anyone, their costumes don't affect me at all
i guess that makes them classic

Case by case but inclined to say LL otm

the weirdest is when one of these folks whips out a cell phone

please note that i never personally found it very enjoyable to make fun of other people's clothes in the first place

I think there may be some kind of rockabilly fascist underground, but when I think of that look I think of roller derby gals and they're good in my book.

Waffle factor: guys in bowling shirts.

i like the look. most of the people i've met who do this are okay. that said, it's a bit 'saddo' imo

I wouldn't pass judgment on the people themselves but I personally find the aesthetic in the OP unappealing. I also don't come across anyone who does this, however.

Yeah, these people tend to be alright, imo.

i don't make fun of them. i guess i'm just amazed that its still a thing almost 70 years later!

I respect their commitment to what is essentially p silly.

Something to aspire to tbh

I associate this look with people who are into burlesque and are in bands that (try to) sound like Nick Cave. Seems much less of a thing in London than it used to be, I think beards have done for it.

why dress like this when you could go steampunk instead

Tom D OTM although it seems VERY popular among 40-50 y/o Home Counties proto-hipsters. mookieproof also OTM in that it's only a hop skip and a jump to steampunk, fogeyism, 'I hate hip hop' etc

...no

istm most people dressing like the '50s are really dressing like juvenile delinquents of the '50s

dressing like you're on the set of Grease

imo dress however you like, but be wary of others finding connotations

They're not dressing like Stafford Cripps, that's true.

seems to be popular with middle-aged former indie kids. also significant crossover with the US workwear urban lumberjack look.

The only people I've seen do this are the same that spend thousands on old 45s at the WFMU record fair.

I respect their commitment to what is essentially p silly.

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they say that dressing up is hard to do

and I guess somebody has to reify the cultural logic of late capitalism

growing up in the 70s, the 50s were obviously very much with me. they were everywhere. in the 70s there were lots of little osmonds...dressed like greasers.

kinda like those kids today who dress like it's 2000

and before anyone asks, yes, there is a sha na na tribute band:

http://www.epcontinentals.com/ShaNaNa-Tribute.html

there is a strong minority of hispanics in la who always dress up like rockabillies

it's kinda cool but in a cute way

similar to how winnipeggers were the only ones in canada who still dressed as mods in the 90s/2000s or whatever

japan will always come out on top when it comes to making the old new again.

http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/rocka-930x578.jpg

why are you stalking my instagram

^ very leningrad cowboys

I have a friend who is very full on rockabilly/50s fashion and it looks amazing on her. She's a fashion stylist and does all sorts of amazing looks but her personal style for as long as I've known her (~ 12 years) has always been this 50s rockabilly thing. She and her like-minded friends all go to a big get together for it in Vegas every year. http://www.vivalasvegas.net/ Not my thing but she looks gorgeous and obviously enjoys it so classic.

i will always feel inferior to these people

I say dud but I also have no actual style at all so I gotta hand it to anybody who does

i do think mike ness is kinda dud. he brings out the vintage tattoos in people like nobody's business. fyi: his two 1999 solo albums sell for about a hundred bucks apiece if you have the original vinyl.

those early 90s social distortion albums go for dumb money too. they are a cult unto themselves.

ugh SD fandom is something I cannot tolerate

The singer in my current band often has a vintage/rockabilly thing going on. She's a great singer first and foremost, but she's also into 40s-60s fashion, hats, hair, makeup. It's not quite my thing, but I can see why people find it compelling.

From a purely selfish perspective, as a bandmate, I'm grateful for it. If there are people who want to see the band partly because the singer is hawt in a vintagey way, then so much the better. Our music will reach an audience that it might not have if it were just dudes like me (aging burb dads in khakis).

dressing like you're on the set of Grease

Before I opened the thread, I honestly expected that it was going to be about people who dress unusually formally/conservatively in a world of T-shirts and tats, not people who are into rockabilly.

yeah, I was just expecting suits with a medium-long cut

Same here.

some people can really pull this off and look great, others not so. certainly doesn't seem as prevalent as it was in the 90's, to me.

Seems like these days lots of dudes are combing their hair like in that photo Sund4r posted:

http://www.ivy-style.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2e50616734f95f1b_large.jpeg

the casual everyday suit is not something that exists where i live. i like them though! i am all for nice suits. i don't think i could ever wear one without looking like a hobo though.

heh "only hobos wear suits"

I find a well-made suit is super-comfortable, I would totally wear a suit all the time if they weren't so expensive and difficult to care for

My first reaction when I see outfits like this is to think of Emmett Till. Then I think about Tamir Rice and reflect on how little some things have changed.

ha yeah unsurprisingly this does not seem like a thing black people do (as opposed to latinos, whites, asians). apart from the Nation of Islam, I guess.

The Peaky Blinders style has usurped this style.

peaky blinders HAS to be top five all-time alt-right t.v. show, right? i mean, the alt-right must have a list of their favorite things. and i would think they would be all about that show. and every viking show.

scott's initial post seems more costumey than everyday wear for these types

but there's definitely an overlap with the group of people I think of as "grown-up post-hardcore/90s ska kids" where there's a strong 50s-ish greaser/rockabilly/workwear thing going on

I'm definitely not in that group but there are a couple places I go around town where these ppl hang

"ha yeah unsurprisingly this does not seem like a thing black people do"

african-americans have definitely done their part to keep the olde-tymey suit alive though. even if that olde-tymey suit is occasionally purple.

I can't remember when it was, but I walked by a nightclub in the twin cities that was 90% black people in the most amazing formalwear that I would never be able to pull off in my life and it was amazing

white men can buy a good suit, but there's an entire ability to be absolutely great-looking in a suit that I'll never attain

yeah, that's why i don't try. i really do look like i mugged an old man for their suit. i will wear a jacket on occasion.

another one who thought this was gonna be about guys wearing fedoras to baseball games or whatever

I'm probably treading into some sort of internal racism in my mind or some really questionable exoticism and am projecting, but I really think there's a level of style I'm incapable of

They're not dressing like Stafford Cripps, that's true.

their loss, he looks pretty sharp here (full disclosure, this photo is from 1946):

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TQ-OX4P6bCI/AAAAAAAACc8/ZMWliaw80Bk/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Sir+Stafford+Cripps+with+Quaid-e-Azam+in+1946.jpg

I like his casual look as well:

https://i.imgur.com/TTpgkxw.png

I'm a big fan of this era and look, a gal who knows how to rock the vintage will always turn my head, but the pic in the OP is way too satiny and, as noted upthread, costume-y.

that is a costume at the top. i just did a quick google.

as has been pointed out upthread there are a fairly large number of people that dress this way in southern california ... ime this is sometimes associated with racist / sexist / otherwise retrograde attitudes, and sometimes not. also sometimes associated with shitty music (social d etc) and sometimes not.

what i find infinitely more interesting in my corner of the woods are people who still dress like quadrophenia mods, complete with scooters

lol i find that infinitely more lame, sorry

those guys are real pricks, imle, lol

there i go being a hypocrite again oh well

The one person I know who does this is a German woman and she really does go for it and has the house to go with it too. The amount of effort is kind of awe-inspiring. Everything is just right. Having said that, while I think she looks very good and I appreciate her commitment I also find it pretty naff.

Ive a friend who is a very highly regarded vintage clothing seller (she's supplied hollywood, dita v-t etc) and she does a great turn in this look, and 40s looks too, not in the tacky "i went to a costume rental" way like the pic in the top post but proper, of the time wear.

her and other friends like to do the vintage hair as well, the fingerwave set curls and the big top curls and such.

But yeah the whole burlesque/roller derby/big 50s hair combo was a weird outburst, with all that faux rockabilly tatts n polkadot skirt thing.

xps well fwiw i meant "interesting" as in "strange" (because unlike rockabilly culture it never really historically existed out here) not "interesting" as in "cool"

are 1940s weekends a thing outside of the UK? https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1600&bih=794&ei=FOsdWs6UL4jPwQLAobrgCQ&q=%221940s+weekend%22&oq=%221940s+weekend%22&gs_l=img.12..0l5j0i30k1l3j0i5i30k1l2.591.591.0.3029.1.1.0.0.0.0.173.173.0j1.1.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.1.170....0.b7rAC6wlPkg

bro the vintage scene is fucking rough as hell. would not feel that bad if disneyland was bombed on dapper day.

I wear a suit-qua-suit maybe once every couple years, tops. But I'm in "nice separates" (sportcoat/dress shirt/tie) pretty often.