1950s Style Overview. Fashion in the 1950s as a whole didnât see as much of a drastic change at any various part throughout the decade like the 1940s had. It did, however, give way to many new styles, silhouettes and fabrics that had never been seen before.
oxymoron (plural oxymorons or oxymora) A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
An oxymoron is a conjoined pair of (seemingly) contradictory terms, e.g. deafening silence, pretty ugly, same difference, silent scream, or jumbo shrimp. The pairing, while apparently paradoxical, will usually have a coherent meaning. Also, you can think of an oxymoron as a contradiction or paradoxical phrase used intentionally for rhetorical affect.