As I will be moving shortly, much (if not all) of my sewing stuff has already been packed away. While doing said packing I came across a book Andrew got me this year for my birthday- Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Mid 1950’s and it is really just vintage clothing porn. The book was printed in 2002 but the average cost the author puts on the items is around $40.00 usd and I think we all know that mint vintage 1950’s dresses go for A LOT more these days. None the less I decided to take a few pictures from the book to share with you all.

novelty fish/whale prints seem to have been quite popular

Sea of Stars indeed!

Much like today, women of the 1950’s wanted style at reasonable prices. The book is full of ‘low budget beauties’ like these stylish swim suits.

Trunks with matching shirts

I haven’t really seen a lot of blogs that put anything about vintage men’s swimming trunks so I thought I’d get on that. This is an ad for matching swimming trunks and shirts. Clearly for the classist of the lads!

Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Mid 1950’s is a great coffee table book and definately worth the $22.76 at amazon.com, buy it!