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14. I think it went out because softer colors came in
Mon Oct 2, 2023, 01:20 AM
Oct 2023

along with the well scrubbed, natiural woman look in the late 50s. During the Depression and the war, choices were very limited because so much went into the war effort that big companies like Revlon didn't do much experimentation.

I don't remember many white women wearing dark red by 1960, they'd gone to pinks of various descriptions. Red was seen as trashy, what women who walked the streets wore, plus marking them as holdovers from a fashion long past its prime.

The companies didn't suffer, black women still bought the reds, which looked great on them while the pinks made them look weird.

I suppose these Republican women think it looks daring and dangerous. Um, nope, only like they've been dining on carrion.

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