Fashion in the 60’s… A time for bright colors and fun patterns. The 60’s brought out the hippies “peace, love and freedom” in everyone. Fashion was being impacted by everything, from music to media, and because of theses social and cultural forces the 60’s was the most fascinating decade of changing fashion. This decade included years of great events that changed the way fashion was interpreted. Women's skirts got shorter, men's hair got longer. Clothes, furniture, and products all looked newer, brighter, and more fun. All the fashions of the 60's were carefree and expressed each individual person.You could wear the weirdest clothes and a week later, they became the style. In 1961, the invention of the birth control pill was introduced, …show more content…
This is easily said to be an important time when fashion interacted well with the events happening because of the interacting with nature, communal living, artistic experimentation, lots of music and the wide spread of drugs. The hippie period was a great time for fashion to indulge the experimentation with the 1960’s people. The change in fashion was so dramatic to the previous years before the hippie period developed. Fashion had taken a massive turning point and became quite exciting and a start to a whole new decade of styles and trends. The hippie favored peace, love and personal freedom and they certainly expressed this through fashion. The baggy clothes, hipsters and bell bottomed jeans, vibrant patterned clothing as well as solid bright colours, short skirts with knee high boots, flowing skirts with sandals , T-shirts and skimpy halter neck tops were very popular. And add to more emphasize their message of peace love and happiness, Flower patterns and Peace signs.This was when the population took a stand and expressed their beliefs with the outside world through …show more content…
By taking all the new rage for the english band The Beatles and conjuring up new patterns and colors. Mary Quant fashion designer and entrepreneur stated,“ good taste is death, vulgarity is life” and also described the 1960’s fashion as “arrogant, aggressive and sexy”. But Quant wasn’t the only one who had an impact on the fashion world. People also began to get their fashion tips from fashion icons like Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy and Jackie Kennedy and the Teddy Boys. For the male population, The Teddy Boys made male interest in fashion socially acceptable. They made trends deciding to use scooters instead of motorbikes to prevent staining their expensive suits with