Seniors, do any of you remember the model Twiggy?

Question

I was born in the early fifties so when I was a teen Twiggy was it. I even went and got a Twiggy haircut. Can any of you please tell me who the famous models were in the 50s as I don't remember? Thank you.

Answer 1

Yes. However I preferred women who were a bit more rounded than angular back then.



late 50s/early 60s

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Sophia Loren, AnnMargret, Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley,

Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, Ursula Andress,Raquel Welch...

Answer 2

not really into women's fashion but Jean Shrimpton is the only one I remember from the 50s. Twiggy was from the 60s and still very much into modelling for Marks and Spencer , she is also an actress an played the lead in the film The Boy Friend

Answer 3

I do remember Twiggy. She was a darling girl but I don't think she starved herself to appear so wraithe-like, that was just her natural metabolism. My very tall, very thin sister got a Twiggy haircut and it was adorable and so suited her face. Unfortunately, Twiggy was not an aberration, but a signal of things to come. We value and actually strive to acheive that skinny look nowadays, and it's just not healthy for young girls at all. How popular was Twiggy? I can't even remember another model by name from that era, and I have never been into fashion at all.

Answer 4

Yes, I do remember Twiggy. I think is is sad that she turned out to be a huckster selling her inferior fashions on the Home Shopping Network! She was a good model....but I do not think she has much artistic fashion sense in her DNA! I suspect she is a better business woman who knows how to use her famous background to sell products to consumers who have idol envy.



I have never been a follower of fashion nor of the people who were in it. I do remember Liz Taylor being a model. Otherwise, not many names are popping into my head at this time. Sorry!

Answer 5

There was also Suzy Parker. She starred in a Cary Grant movie. Couldn't act, but she was beautiful. Twiggy is still very pretty. She sells a line of clothing on the Home Shopping Network.

Answer 6

I don't remember 50's models - but the hour glass figure was

the in thing.



Being born in 1935 - my teen years were the 40's and early 50's.



Here are some of the beauties of the 40's and 50's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAtq9an12iI

DeeJay.

Answer 7

Models were not celebrities in the 50's as they are now, most were anonymous. Dorian Leigh was probably the top model in the 50's. Her sister Suzy Parker was also famous but more as an actress than a model. Another was the fabulous Carmen who is still modelling.



Recent picture of Carmen(she's 81!)

http://www.drnirdosh.com/admin/editoruploads/image/carmen-dell-orefice-02.jpg

Answer 8

In 1967, I thought she was cute (I was 22). My then girlfriend bought a cut out Twiggy doll set...cardboard Twiggy with cut out clothes. I had that for years.

Answer 9

Twiggy was modeling in the 60's.

I remember her , she was also on that Top Model tv show awhile back as a judge.

My older sister was built like Twiggy and dressed like her in the 60's.

I think my sister was slightly taller then Twiggy is. Sis looked like a rail but it was natural for her, 5'10" and exactly 108lbs.

funny, years later my dog weighed 108lbs.but he was a brouser.

Sis took allot of heat for being so thin but she could rock a micro-mini skirt with boots, her thighs were about as thick as her calf's were, so skinny.



Her super thin look may of been natural but she did set up allot of young girls for heartache with their figures.

i was one of them as my sister was modeling a tiny bit after she moved away at age 18. Mother wouldn't of gone for it if she was living at home.

My sister was only slightly more then one inch taller then me but it took me 5 years to reach her age and my full height.

in the mean time i was getting obsessed with being as slim as my sister was.

She could eat anything and never gain weight, all her life she was like that.

I wasn't ever a heavy kid but I was not built as skinny as my sister was. I would strave myself so she and her older friends would think I was just as pretty as my sister was.

i have always been at least 15 lbs. heavier then my sister was and she would always compair herself to me in a negative way towards saying I had a fat bottom etc.

Not a cool thing to do to a 13-14 year old girl.

i had some food issues for a few years, always on a diet, half starving myself and telling my mother all the time that I had already eaten at a friends home, anything not to gain weight.

glad to say after I had to support myself, I let the food issues go for the most part, too busy working and trying to pay my bills to worry about a few lbs.

It is dangerous to focus so much on another persons appearence, many young women have learned to hate their bodies because of the media coverage of famous people.

Jean Shrimpton and a Russian named Varuska were also names in the modeling world in the 60's.

Answer 10

I do recall Twiggy but mostly in the 60's and, of course, "the Shrimp". Jean Shrimpton. There was also Beverly Johnson(a pioneer)

Answer 11

I think most of us lads at the time would remember 'Sabrina' before twiggy

Answer 12

Do I ever! I hold her personally responsible for feeling overweight when in actuality, I was not. I thought she was the most exquisite little thing ever.



Most of the boys thought she was too thin, but I adored her.



EDIT: I loved Colleen Corby. People used to say I looked like her.

Answer 13

Yes S I do and she's still very active today modelling for M&S. She still looks stunning. Jean Shrimpton was another stunning waif like young model.

Answer 14

Yes. I thought she looked ghastly. I was skinny myself and didn't think it was a cool look at all. And no, I don't remember any other models. Sorry.