True, climbing out of a time machine into the time of that era would certainly have produced strange glances. Which reminds me that fashion today has become so diverse and varied that in the metropolises at least no one looks at someone ostentatiously when one falls out of the frame. At most your own family or friends, if you suddenly change your style.
I think the lightness and carelessness that we know from the films and yet also from the quite naive songs, hides a little that there were always dark shadows beside the atmosphere of optimism. As actually at all times. At that time there was a terrible fear of the atomic bomb. Today it's climate change. Television was also quite a new thing in the 50s.
True, the cars were really beautiful. There were cars in red! Or turquoise! And also there the beautiful curves and lines. Simply a pleasure. Today we drive a car with a bad conscience. Rightly, one must unfortunately say.
But to dream a little now and then and to bring the highlights of past times into consciousness, is simply a nice occupation, which provides me with great satisfaction. It's simply fun.
Have a beautiful Sunday!
Although the old timey movies and songs make me long to be in that 1950-esque era, you are right to say that there was indeed some darkness in that era too. I think that the songs and the movies do tend to sugarcoat things and make that era seem like something right out of your dreams. That's nice to imagine, sure, but in practicality, umm, I don't know to be honest with you.
I think that it is a healthy habit to imagine and dream about things, provides you with a great escape when you're in need of one!