Fashionable 50s: The 1950s Coloring Book
By: LightBurst Media
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a fabulous coloring book inspired by the fashions and society of the 1950’s. I haven’t really seen anything like it before and was captured by the cover page and bought it sight unseen otherwise. It turns out that it is part of a series that (currently) includes the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
The book includes everything from a sock hop to a singer who is more than slightly reminiscent of Elvis. I love the design with the young woman and the typewriters as I learned to type on an old mechanical typewriter. The design with the young girl and the forty-fives reminded me of my older sister, though she listened to music on that style of record player in the 1960s.
The designs are definitely detailed but do not include tiny and intricate areas to color. The designs have full backgrounds. My only nit with the book is that the designs simply stop at a certain point. I wish that the artist/publisher had included a framing line at the outer edges for a more polished look.
I hope that they plan on doing a sixties version (from Jackie Kennedy to hippies and Sargent Pepper style psychedelic fashions.) How cool would that be. ETA – apparently the company has published a sixties issue which I will be picking up soon!
