We're gonna party like it's 1955

We hosted Heather's 30th birthday party at our place on the weekend and for reasons still lost in the mist of time, it had a 50s theme. Now a 50s theme is great, it allows you to dress up like a greaser, or put on a poodle skirt, play the golden oldies without retribution and really get into the old school hors d'ouevres like celery with cheese whip and olives wrapped in ham with those toothpicks that have coloured cellophane on the end of them. Good fun. Best of all it allows you to see your significant other dressed as a 50s housewife which is probably as good a present as any!


a 50s icon - the housewife

Of course, with a wife like that, a gentleman really should do all he can to impress, which calls for a cravat.


Another relic from the 50s - the cravat