This is Scottsdale, Arizona through the lens of Life's Nina Leen. Here glorious midcentury Western fashions are paraded about a surreal oasis; it's an absolute aesthetic paradise of '50s pastels and classic ranchwear, pink poodles and beautiful Arabian horses! Yet there is also something unsettling, something poignantly ephemeral, in pictures like these where the blithe sprawl of suburbia is juxtaposed against the stark ancient desert (indeed, the city of Scottsdale was only incorporated in 1951). Anyway, I want to live inside these pictures, and had to share them! A smashing couple: (Photos taken from the Life archives via Google Images.)