The Souvenir Scarf: Niagara Falls I am not sure when souvenir scarves first showed up, but I suspect

The Souvenir Scarf: Niagara Falls I am not sure when souvenir scarves first showed up, but I suspect they were especially popular during the 1950s. The United States experienced a post-war period of prosperity, and more people had the time and the money to travel, and to buy silk scarves like these. To get a more exact dates doesn’t seem possible unless I can figure out who sold this, or when exactly they got excited about tulips at Niagara Falls. The pictures give us clues. The Maid of the Mist has been there since the 19th Century. So I thought the Spanish Aerocar might give me a date, but it turns out it has been there since 1916 and named for the Spanish engineer, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, who designed it. In fact, it is still there and called the Whirlpool Aerocar. The Rainbow Bridge opened in 1941, and the one female figure, is wearing a hemline from the 1940s, just past the knee. So that would make it before 1947 and the New Look. The cars in the parking lot in the bottom image show what look to be late 1940s to the early 1950s. Wearing a large scarf to keep your hair from getting blown around and instead of a hat that might get ruined in the water spray was a sensible choice back then.  And of course, you can still wear it as a pretty spring scarf. Which is what I do. -- source link

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