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time traveler

for me the 1950s were perhaps the most optimistic times for America. the 60% of the people that I met were really happy about their life doing the comparison between them and the gen z.

people have been calling themselves modern for a while now. Thus a chronicler describing the reign of Charlemagne some 1200 years ago speaks of the modern times and from the 11th and 12th century onward scholars started describing themselves as the moderns to distinguish themselves from ancient scholars

in short, people in the 1950s were modern just like we are presently modern and arguably the first crusade is really a modern event.

in my trip I also notice some things about the fashion I don’t think the answer about fashion is about dressing appropriately. Women wore dresses at home, suits for appointments, hats and gloves. They would be embarrassed if a bra strap or slip showed.

Jeans were for farmers, ranchers and other laborers. Or Dickies brand work pants or coveralls.

Men wore suits and ties to the office. And hats. Even on weekends men wore trousers and button down shirts.

The style of the 80’s was excessive with all it’s layers, shoulder pads, frills, high up-turned collars but kids took time to dress to impress. There were so many specialty shops just for men’s fashion.

Today, I wonder why boys even bother putting on jeans. Every woman I know is grossed out or laughing at boys who have to hold onto their pants because they ride below the buttocks instead of around the waist as pants should. There is nothing attractive about the way they walk either. They walk like toddlers with a diaper full of shit that needs changing.

I work in retail. Not only do I see people shopping while wearing pajama pants and slippers, I’ve seen people in bathrobes.

Undergarments are meant to be worn under clothing.

That’s why people dressed better in the 40–60’s.

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the 50s

Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from world war ll, aided by the post war ll economic expansion. The period also saw great population growth with increasing birth rates and the emergence of the baby boomer generation. Despite this recovery, the Cold War developed from its modest beginnings in the late 1940s to a heated competition between the Soviet Union  and the united states by the early 1960s. The ideological clash between communism and capitalism dominated the decade, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.

In the United States, a wave of anti communism sentiment known as the second red scare aka McCarthyism resulted in Congressional hearings by both houses in congress. In the Soviet Union, the death of Joseph Stalin would lead to a political campaign and reforms known as "De-Stalinizationz" initiated by Nikita Khrushchev leading to the deterioration of the relationship between the Soviet Union and China in the 1960s.

The beginning of the Cold War led the beginning of the Space race with the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and the United States would create NASA in response on 1958. Along with the increased testing of nuclear weapons (such as RDS-37 and Upshot) called the arm race, the tense geopolitical situation created a politically conservative climate.

The beginning of  decolonization in Africa and Asia also took place in this decade, accelerating several conflicts throughout the decade. Conflicts like the First indochina war, the Malayan emergency, the Korean War, the cuban revolution, the Vietnam war, The first Sudanese war, and the Suez Crisis. Coups include the Egyptian Revolution, the Iranian coups d'erat.

television became a common innovation in American homes during the 1950s culminating in the golden age of tv. This led many people to purchase more products and upgrade whatever they currently had resulting in a mass consumerism. While outside of America, it would take a few decades for TV to become common in other countries.

The 1950s was a turning point for polio with the successful discovery  of the polio vaccine. Following the widespread use of poliovirus vaccine in the mid-1950s, the incidence of poliomyelitis declined rapidly in many industrialized countries while it would gradually decline for the next few decades in developing countries reducing the number of death rates from this disease.

During the 1950s, the world population increased from 2.5 to 3.0 billion people, with approximately 1 billion births and 500 million deaths