American Decades

Important Events in Fashion, 1950–1959

William J. Levitt expands his mass-production techniques of building identical boxlike houses in Levittown, New York, assembled by crews using precut materials, thus accelerating the rush to suburbia.
The White House is gutted and remodeled during the first year of a three-year project. Only the outside walls remain unchanged during the rebuilding.
New York's United Nations Secretariat building, featuring all-glass east and west facades, is completed to provide offices for the UN's thirty-four hundred employees on land overlooking the East River.
The "Sun House" at Dover, Massachusetts, heated solely by stored-up rays of the sun and erected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is occupied in comfort by a New England family throughout the winter, opening up the possibilities of solar heat for house warming.
Miss Clairol hair coloring is introduced; it takes only half the...

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