1950s fashion

thumb|175px|A modern striped bow tie neck blouse and a navy blue mini skirt thumb|right|165px|A camisole being used as a blouse

Lacoste S.A. (; ) is a French designer sports fashion company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste, and entrepreneur André Gillier. It sells clothing, footwear, sportswear, eyewear, leather goods, perfume, towels and watches. The company can be recognised by its green Crocodile logo. René Lacoste, the company's founder, was first given the nickname "the Crocodile" by the American press after he bet his team captain a crocodile-skin suitcase that he would win his match. He was later redubbed "the Crocodile" by French fans because of his tenacity on the tennis court. In November 2012,

250px|thumb|High-gloss, sheer-to-waist pantyhose thumb|250px|Pantyhose brief styles (top to bottom, left to right): control-top, sheer-to-waist and simple-panty sections

privately held American clothing company

American multinational luxury jewelry and specialty retailer

English tennis player

thumb|upright=1.2|A fedora made by Borsalino, with a pinch-front teardrop-shaped crown thumb|A fedora made by Borsalino with a gutter-dent, side-dented crown, the front of the brim "snapped down" and the back "snapped up"

American footwear manufacturer

A crinoline is a stiff or structured petticoat designed to hold out a skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century. Originally, crinoline described a stiff fabric made of horsehair ("crin") and cotton or linen which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining. The term crin or crinoline continues to be applied to a nylon stiffening tape used for interfacing and lining hemlines in the 21st century.

thumb|right|Sketch of a garter. The band goes around the leg, and the hook on the lower side attaches to the top of the stocking. A garter is an article of clothing comprising a narrow band of fabric fastened about the leg to keep up stockings. In the to centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg is most slender, to keep the stocking from slipping. The advent of elastic has made them less necessary from this functional standpoint, although they are still often worn for fashion. Garters have been widely worn by men and women, depending on fashion trends.

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loose-fitting short-sleeve shirts of brightly colored fabric in tropical prints

canvas and rubber shoes

American brand of denim jeans

member of a British subculture

very narrow straight skirt

closed, low-cut shoe with one or more straps across the instep

soft felt hat with the crown dented lengthwise and a slightly rolled brim

thumb|Blue and white is a common seersucker color combination.

dress without straps or sleeves, usually with a fitted bodice

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thumb|Leonard Cohen wearing a trilby A trilby is a narrow-brimmed type of hat. The trilby was once viewed as the rich man's favored hat; it is sometimes called the "brown trilby" in Britain and was frequently seen at the horse races.

necktie of thin cord usually tipped with with aglets and fastened with a decorative slide

cloth hat with a downward-sloping brim

type of hairstyle where the hair is turned back off the forehead in a roll

brassiere with curved wire inserts to support and define the breasts

Keds is an American brand known for its canvas shoes with rubber soles. Founded in 1916 by U.S. Rubber, its original shoe design was the first mass-marketed canvas-top sneaker. The brand was sold to Stride Rite in 1979, which was acquired by Wolverine World Wide in 2012.

close-fitting, ankle-high boots with elastic side panel

style of hat

thumb|right|200px|Elly Jackson of La Roux wearing her hair in a quiff The quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 1950s flattop, and sometimes a mohawk. It was born as a post-war reaction to the short and strict haircuts for men. The hairstyle was a staple in the British Teddy Boy movement, but became popular again in Europe in the early 1980s and experienced a resurgence in popularity during the 1990s.

French leathergoods company

thumb|233x233px|American basketball player Gary Thompson (basketball player)|Gary Thompson sporting a flattop haircut, c. 1958

variant of female crop haircut where the hair is left slightly longer at the front and top of the head while the hair at the back and sides is cropped

style of facial hair

haircut where the hair is left slightly longer at the front and top of the head while the hair at the back and sides is shaved or cropped

American fashion designer (1923–1974)

thumb|225px|A mid-1970s example of the pageboy haircut. The pageboy or page boy is a hairstyle named after what was believed to be the haircut of a late medieval page boy. It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under. There is often a fringe (bangs) in the front. This style was popular in the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s.

Type of skirt with a narrow hem

cap of raccoon fur, often with the tail attached

lightweight brassiere for girls

thumb|right|A Christian (Anglicanism|Anglican) [[priest wearing a white girdle around his waist to hold his alb and stole in place.]] A belt without a buckle, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle in various contexts, especially historical ones, where girdles were a very common part of everyday clothing from antiquity until perhaps the 15th century, especially for women. Most girdles were practical pieces of costume to hold other pieces in place, but some were loose and essentially for decoration. Among the elite these might include precious metals and jewels.

lightweight flight jacket developed for the United States military

eight-panel cap

thumb|upright|Barkcloth jacket from Kalimantan, [[Indonesia]] thumb|upright|Fijian masi thumb|upright|Hawaiian kapa from the 18th century

thumb|upright|A grey striped six-on-one double-breasted suit with jetted pockets, a style popular in the 1980s

American fashion designer (1931–2013)

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style of men's dress

Bobby-soxers were a subculture of young women in the mid-to-late 1940s. Their interests included popular music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra, and wearing loose-fitting clothing, notably bobby socks. Their manner of dress, which diverged sharply from earlier ideals of feminine beauty, was controversial. As a teenager, actress Shirley Temple played a stereotypical bobby soxer in the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).

thumb|300px|Women wearing Gomesi at a wedding in Kampala, Uganda.

American brand of footwear

1940s-1950s term used to describe Hollywood actresses who adopted a popular fashion of wearing tight, form-fitting sweaters

small round cap, often colorful

dress worn by American actress Grace Kelly on the day of her wedding to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, in 1956

French fashion house

line of motorcycle jackets from Schott

footwear consisting of a sole with two leather ligaments

type of eyeglasses

style of eyeglasses