Through the Decades

Creating pages to span several decades can be a daunting task for even the most organized of chronological scrapbookers. While certain images and colors come to mind when we think of past decades, it might be helpful to scrap the decades of photos according to themes. In this plan, it is possible to scrap past photos and current photos in the same layout as you compare trends through the years. Fashion and hairstyle seem to be good places to start as they are the focal points in most photos and can give clues when the decade is in question.

Decades of Fashion:

20's

• Hemlines rose to knees
• Waistlines dropped to hips
• Pinstriped suits
• Fedoras
• Cloche hats
• "Flapper era"

30's

• Slim and elegant dresses
• Bias-cut evening gowns
• Zoot (extravagant) suits
• Zippers
• Fur stoles
• Trousers for women

40's

• Conservative dresses withoutcuffs, collars, or buttons
• Broad-shouldered suits with wide lapels
• Sailor look
• Feedsack fabric

50's

• Poodle skirts, bobby socks
• White T-shirts and jeans
• Coonskin hats
• Letter sweaters
• Saddle shoes

60's

• Bell-bottom jeans
• Tie-dyed T-shirts
• Turtlenecks
• Peasant blouses
• Leather vests
• Mini skirts
• Granny glasses
• Go - Go boots

70's

• Polyester, Acrylic, Lycra
• Platform shoes
• Loud colors
• Flare jeans
• Earth shoes

80's

• Shoulder-pad business suits
• Exercise clothes
• Penny loafers
• Denim jackets
• Lace fingerless gloves
• Vans tennis shoes
• Miami Vice fashion
• Jelly shoes

90's

• Baggy overall jeans
• Polar fleece
• Baby doll dresses
• Reebok pumps
• Grunge
• Overalls

00's

• Low-rise jeans
• Flare jeans
• Wide skate shoes with fat laces
• Boys wear girl pants

Decades of Hairstyles:

20's

• Short fringed boyish bobs
• Conk hairstyles
  

30's

• Carefully styled finger waves
• Permanent waves
• Hair coloring

40's

• Bouncy, sausage roll curls
• Pulled back and fastened

50's

• Platinum blonde large curls
• Ponytails for girls
• Greased "duck's butts" for boys

60's

• Hair ironing
• Bouffant hairdos
• Geometric cuts
• Long, full-bodied

70's

• Long soft permed "Farrah" cuts
• Hippy looks

80's

• Goatee beards
• Big hair with lots of hairspray
• Bouncy frizzy curls

90's

• Spiral perms
• "Rachel" from Friends haircut

00's

• Anything goes
• Blonde with dark roots
• Poker straight
• Understated waves, subtle highlights

Strolling through the decades in search of themes can be the perfect angle for your pages. Connecting the past with the present through fashion, hairstyles, music, film, dance, literature, and even Saturday morning cartoons will give our scrapbooks a unique nostalgia for generations to come.

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