A few years ago I attended a cool Rockabilly event in Toronto called “Bop & Bowl” where we “bopped” to good Rockabilly music and “bowled” at the bowling alley…clearly lol! Anyways this event got me thinking about what I should of worn at the Bowling alley that day. So while looking online for inspiration, I stumbled upon some really fun photos of “Bowling alley fun” AND “Bowling alley dress” that I thought I would share with you.
Note: See a full post I did on “Vintage Bowling Advertising“
1940’s & 1950’s Bowling
Vintage Advertising & Vintage Photos
How adorable is this 1950s Seven-Up vintage ad featuring a teenager couple on a date together at the bowling alley.
1950’s Schlitz Beer Ad featuring a couple at the bowling alley and the wife is helping her husband drink his beer while he prepares to bowl.
Source: Alamy
1951 bowling history and instructional manual from the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. Topics include: bowling etiquette, dress and proper stance.
Source: Etsy – MrsWhiteTwig
OMG! Look at how divine these 1940s women look?? The last two ladies on the right are outstanding with their hair and makeup and look at their perfect nails! I would love to know what their nails looked like AFTER they finished though. ha!
PHOTO credit: “Advocate Mag.com” & Lauren Muncy
This is my vision of how the Bowling party will look like 🙂 Late 1940s/ Early 1950s photo of young women throwing their bowling ball down the lane at the same time.
1950s Bowling team of young men all smiles ready to get their game on!
Source: Etsy-AlaskaVintage
Fun with the family at the Bowling Alley circa 1950s. The little girl with the cute dress and hair totally makes this picture.
Photo Credit: Joe Herring Jr
1950s vintage photo of a woman scoring a bowling game.
I love her look, if I could wear shorts well I would totally take this 1950s look but for now it just might have to be the top.
Photo Credit: Joe Herring Jr
I just love everything about this photo of 4 women in the motion of bowling in the 1940s!
The two 1940s images below are the looks I think I will go with for my “Bowling Look”. Bit of this here and bit of that there and done (cute bow in the first ladies vintage hairstyle)!
Now for the image of all images to close off this blog post…1940s women at the bowling alley in matching skirts with shorts & blouses getting ready to bowl (or already bowling as per the pretty woman on the right). SUPER 1940s Fashion Inspiration!
Question Time: Are you a bowler? 10 pin or 5? Share any thoughts in the comment section below.
Happy bowling everyone!
FURTHER READING:
- Vintage Advertising (Archived Blog posts)
- Vintage Photos 1920s-1960s (Archived posts)
- Vintage Fashions 1920s-1960s
Liz 🙂
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That sounds like such a blast! These vintage bowling gals are killing me with their awesome style! I was just thinking about bowling last week actually and went hunting for a deal on a vintage league uniform online, but there were none even remotely close to my budget. I think I might have to wait for the thrift store gods to smile on me there one day.
♥ Jessica
They are hard to come by. I plan on doing the thrift store hunt too, to see if anything jumps out at me but if not I have plan B of a skirt and blouse.