Think of the differences today:
- All cars back then were domestic
- The women all wore dresses
- No credit/debit cards
- Cashier had to “wring up” every item - no scanners
- Very few single parent households
- No cell phones
Grocery carts still look pretty much the same.
The women all wore dresses...”
Not only dresses but slips, stockings, full appropriate undergarments including hoops and all those crazy petticoats. We used to starch them with gelatin so there was always one hanging up drying somewhere. And you never wore pj’s without a robe to completely cover them. In the late 1950’s I had at least 10 pairs of wrist length cotton gloves - all white and nary a spot on any of them and we wore them everywhere! The only person who wore denim was my daddy and that was overalls which he wore when doing farmwork. Every pair of shoes had to have a matching purse. You’d think we’d have more money now that there are so many things we no longer wear.