page_title: 1945–1960 in Western fashion
section_title: Menswear
hierarchical_section_title: 1945–1960 in Western fashion / Menswear
caption_attribution_description: Truman Capote, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in a chair, resting head on his right hand, holding cigarette in his left hand / World Telegram &amp; Sun photo by Roger Higgins.
context_page_description: Fashion in the years following World War II is characterized by the resurgence of haute couture after the austerity of the war years. Square shoulders and short skirts were replaced by the soft femininity of Christian Dior's "New Look" silhouette, with its sweeping longer skirts, fitted waist, and rounded shoulders, which in turn gave way to an unfitted, structural look in the later 1950s.
caption: Writer Truman Capote wears a pullover sweater, casual shirt, and cuffed trousers, 1959.
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