UNSPOKEN Handbag Rules Every 1950s Woman Followed (That Still Make You Look Elegant)

📖 THE FORGOTTEN 1950s FEMININE ROUTINE MANUAL - the daily beauty, etiquette and home routines of the women who never let a pocketbook touch the floor. 150 illustrated pages, over 1,900 readers. 👉 nostalgiawomen.com Easter Sunday, 1955. Arlene slid into the church pew with white gloves on and her first navy pocketbook on her forearm, and it went straight onto her lap. Never the floor. No one handed women of that generation a list of rules for carrying a purse. They learned them by watching their mothers, and those small habits are a big part of why they always looked so put together. In this video: why a purse never went on the floor, why it rode on the forearm instead of the shoulder (and the designer who changed that in 1955), the shoes it had to match, the nightly ten-minute clean-out, saddle soap and tissue paper, the Labor Day rule for white and straw, Dior's advice about color, day bags versus evening bags, the word pocketbook, the baseball glove that inspired a famous American leather company, the princess who hid a secret behind her bag, the Queen's three-bag system, and the little pink evening bag a First Lady carried to her inaugural ball, which now belongs to the Smithsonian. #1950s #vintagehandbags #1950sfashion #etiquette #nostalgia