My pet peeve is having the Poodle Skirt considered "the" costume of the fifties. It was not. It was produced in 1956/57 so those are the years the skirt would have been the fad and I personally guarantee you it wasn't. High school...and I'm talking about high school- girls wore skirts, twin set sweaters, full skirts, etc. Shirtwaist dresses. I have never seen a high school girl pictured in a yearbook from that fifties era wearing a poodle skirt. Sorry. it's a costume and a few elementary children might have worn them and later they were worn as examples of the fifties so now it's accepted as true.
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