Girls don their fifties finery (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Girls don their fifties finery

1:59pm Thursday 9th July 2009 in

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FROCKS with big, swirly skirts, slim-heeled courts and pearls were the must-have fashion pieces in the latter years of the fifties.

Following our look at fashion in ’63, Teresa Watson, of Darwen, sent us these photographs of what all the best-dressed girls were wearing half a century ago.

One shows Teresa and six friends dressed in their finery, ready, as she says “to paint the town red” on a ride-out with Darwen Paper Mill to Blackpool.

Taken in 1958, it shows, from left to right: Thelma Hird, Teresa– she was Sullivan before marrying– Margaret Howarth, Rachel Brown, Lilly Allen, Nellie Marsden and Sheila Graham.

All of them, except Thelma, still live in Darwen.

Teresa recalls: “I was the eldest of the group, but remember that I couldn’t get served at the bar in the Winter Gardens!”

The other photograph from her album shows a group of the paper mill workers who enjoyed a ride-out in 1956.

Teresa, Nellie and Lilly are on that one, too.

Can you spot them, or do you know anyone else?