On The Waterfront: The 1950s Ideal. The Fashionable Woman in relation to starlet Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint epitomized the ideals of feminine beauty in the 1950s. Saint was a marker for fashionable beauty from head to toe, personifying what was then the hair styles and fashions of the time.

Evas hair could be classified as almost prototype of style in that day where "fifties hairstyles were soft and curly"(FiftiesWeb). Strait hair was not fashionable at all and accomplishing the curly or wavy locks was accomplished by the use of many rollers and pins which woman slept in all night.n Today this may seem like painstaking measures that woman would go through to fit the beauty ideals.

Also Saints outterwear which is seen in a large part of the movie predicts what is, or what will soon be the style. Coats were always long and elegant in style. Women tended to try and portray themselves as elegant, fashionable and feminine. The FiftiesWeb even stated that " women were expected to dress smartly at all times, choice of coat completed an ensemble" (FiftiesWeb).