国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 7月25日 22時03分

You would be hard-pressed to find shark fins in our collections, but we do have one kind of fin: this taillight assembly for a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz.
Inspired by World War II aircraft, tail fins started to appear on American cars in the late 1940s.
Tail fins were a style with a purpose: sell more cars. When World War II ended, car sales rose dramatically as Americans enjoyed peaceful and prosperous lifestyles. By the early ’50s, manufacturers could only watch with dismay as the sales figures dropped. In order to keep their financial engines running, car makers used the time-tested practice of planned obsolescence—creating products that rapidly became obsolete. In this case, manufacturers usually pursued "design obsolescence." Every year, auto manufacturers released a new annual model that differed very little mechanically from previous generation but showcased a dramatically different style. Would you settle for last year’s model in your driveway?
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