Oh how right you are. Watch the original *An Affair to Remember* and look at the people, especially the women disembarking the ship...sigh...beautiful clothes, furs and fur coats, beautiful jewelry, and hats and gloves. I miss the America of my youth.
You must have come from a wealthy family. I don’t know anyone that had that stuff in the 50s except rich folk...which is the same nowadays.
About once a month during the fifties, we would head for downtown Los Angeles to shop at the May Company, a huge department store. Even though it was routine shopping, we would always dress up in suits and ties for the occasion. This was how people shopped long before there were shopping malls that featured Nordstrom's, Sears, Macy's, etc.
The May Company and the Italian Kitchen across the street, where we would sometimes eat after shopping, are long gone.
Thank you, I’m going to make a point to watch it.
Like I said, I’m in my forties, but my parents had me when they were older, and I remember my mother complaining about the fact that women stopped wearing gloves. When she passed away and I went through her things, I found a pair of the white summer kind, old and yellowed by then, but tucked away as a memory by her.