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1959: Oh, Those Fashionable Fifties

18.05.12

Fly Them to Kearny Mesa:  “Fashion Flights,” the third annual Golden Avenue School PTA fashion show fundraiser, was such a novel idea that local TV stations requested personal appearances by the models. The show's flight theme featured 15 models, ages six to adult, portraying travelers garbed for trips to distant lands.  

Casual to formal fashions from Lemon Grove shops included leopard printed jumpsuits, frilly party dresses, snappy suits with peplum jackets, the ubiquitous hats with veils and flowers without which no self-respecting woman left home in those days, and plenty of Samsonite luggage.

The  Lemon Grove Review  ran a front page photograph of seven models piling into a “woodie” station wagon for the trek to KFMB, San Diego's first TV station, established 1949, up Kearny Mesa way.

Fly Them to Paris:   Not to be outdone, the PTA of Vista La Mesa School held its fifth annual fashion show, “Ooh La La,” in the cafeteria, which had been transformed into a Parisian sidewalk café. As models strolled past signs reading “St. Germain,” “Right Bank” and “Christian Dior,” pianist Betty Means and the Balladears warbled a medley of French songs. Frank Black was the commentator and parents and kiddies modeled stylish stuff from area shops.

Source: Patch.com