When Women Were Beautifully Dressed, and Cars Were Honeys

Jeannette Holland Austin
2 min readMay 8, 2024
Colonial Women

Fashion has always been a “thing” with women. Throw in some fancy hairdos, a fan, pointed shoes, and lovely manners, and you have the Colonial Era.

The adopted styles in America originated in England and later France. I can recall that styles dominated the scene as late as the 1940s and 1950s. There was an annual season for adopting something new. During the 1940s…

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