by Elizabeth Wellington

Contemporary women’s style is taking its cues this fall from the late 1950s and early ’60s – the country’s most well-tailored and fiercely feminine era in fashion. But this time around, women are donning ruffled blouses, mid-calf pencil skirts, and bateau-neck shifts – with contrasting gloves – without having to deal with the economic and social restraints that once kept them powerless.