The moral of the story today is that culture doesn't typically pay attention to what year it is. What we know today as "The Fifties" actually didn't end on January 1st, 1960. Quite the contrary, the cultural "decade" of the 1950s extended well into the early-mid 1960s. Arguably, not a thing changed until some years into the Vietnam War, and the resulting sharp political shift.

Here's Dion demonstrating my point beautifully. Runaround Sue.