Changes: 50s Suburbia

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1950s Suburbia describes a subculture of the American middle class in the 1950s.

1950s Suburbia imagery is commonly used in the horror genre to indicate the uncanny or surreal. Women's fashion and gender expectations from this time period heavily influenced the Tradwife movement.

History

Due to a population boom following World War Two, new neighborhoods were built in the areas surrounding large cities. These communities were known as suburbs, thus the term suburbia.

Much of the imagery related to this aesthetic features the nuclear family, a new concept of a couple and their children living independently from their parents which hadn't been possible in the 1930s and 1940s. The average family at the time consisted of a mother, father, and 2.5 children. (This is a statistical number of course, but the image of the family was generally depicted as having a boy, a girl, and a baby of unspecified gender.)

For the most part these families were white, and in reality Black families were far less likely to benefit from the G.I. Bill and housing loans which made this lifestyle possible.

Imagery

pre-fab house (short for pre-fabricated, a house which was built on an assembly line and could be constructed quickly)
white picket fences
women wearing aprons over fancy dresses with high heels and pearl necklaces
children playing baseball
fast food like hamburgers, milkshakes, and hot dogs
1950s era cars

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 {{Aesthetic|image1=LevittownPA.jpg|caption1=Levittown, PA, the second mass-produced suburb in the United States|decade_of_origin=1950s|key_colours=White, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green|key_values=Family|related_aesthetics=[[Diner]]<br>[[Americana]]}}
+s Suburbia imagery is commonly used in the horror genre to indicate the uncanny or surreal. Women's fashion and gender expectations from this time period heavily influenced the [[Cottagecore|Tradwife]] movement.
+== History ==
 Due to a population boom following World War Two, new neighborhoods were built in the areas surrounding large cities. These communities were known as suburbs, thus the term suburbia.
+Much of the imagery related to this aesthetic features the nuclear family, a new concept of a couple and their children living independently from their parents which hadn't been possible in the 1930s and 1940s. The average family at the time consisted of a mother, father, and 2.5 children. (This is a statistical number of course, but the image of the family was generally depicted as having a boy, a girl, and a baby of unspecified gender.)
-s Suburbia imagery is commonly used in the horror genre to indicate the uncanny or surreal. Women's fashion and gender expectations from this time period heavily influenced the [[Cottagecore|Tradwife]] movement.
+For the most part these families were white, and in reality Black families were far less likely to benefit from the G.I. Bill and housing loans which made this lifestyle possible.
+== Imagery ==
+* pre-fab house (short for pre-fabricated, a house which was built on an assembly line and could be constructed quickly)
+* white picket fences
+* women wearing aprons over fancy dresses with high heels and pearl necklaces
+* children playing baseball
+* fast food like hamburgers, milkshakes, and hot dogs
+* 1950s era cars
+== Media ==
+=== TV Shows ===
+* <span class="s1"></span>''I Love Lucy'' (1951-1957)
+* ''Leave it to Beaver'' (1957-1963)
+* ''Wandavision'' (2021)
+=== Movies ===
+* <span class="s1"></span>''Pleasantville'' (1998)
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