LOST 1950s Prints Every Woman Wore (That Are Coming Back in Style)

Somewhere along the way, women our age were told that prints make you look older. So the closet filled up with navy, black, beige and gray.

The women of the 1950s never heard that rule. They chose their prints by holding a bolt of cotton up to their chin at the fabric counter: red polka dots, pink gingham, cabbage roses, cherries, sailor stripes, a touch of leopard.

In this video: the polka dot dress from I Love Lucy that sold for more than $140,000, the pink gingham wedding dress that made gingham impossible to find in Paris, the plaid jacket over a million American women bought, the blouse Vera Neumann sewed from two scarves, the Honolulu printer who turned out 60,000 yards a month, the dress Lilly Pulitzer invented to hide orange juice stains, and the year five of the world's greatest painters put their work on cotton you could buy for less than two dollars a yard.