Affordable Swank for
the W.W. II Generation

If the preferred architectural style to please the Doughboys was Banker's
Tudor or Spanish Colonial, their sons and daughter's came to adore those
suburban dwellings called Ranch Houses (also called "California ranch",
"rambler" or "rancher"). Between the late Forties on
through the Seventies millions of these houses would be built, with
the more expansive "L-shaped" version appearing in the mid-1950s.

The growing American middle class of the time considered them to be the
high-water mark of good taste.

The affluence of the Fifties brought with it a need for new how-to books
and grander fashions. Read about it here...