Part 2 Tie-Dye
Part 3 The Military Look
Part 4 Hippie Accessories
We are now at the end of the 60s decade and heading for a style which will take us through one of the oddest fashions trends in the topsy-turvy fashion merry-go-round that was the 1960s.
Hippies appeared in America in the mid-60s and were composed mainly of middle-class teenagers disaffected with life and culture who drew on the experiences of 50s anti-conformist beatniks. Psychedelic drugs were common by this time and hippy culture merged the two ideas to create a movement that expressed itself by promoting anything contrary to the excepted society of the day.
Most people rate the maxi skirt as a 70s phenomenon but, for a change, I’m going to disagree.
Fur has been the clothing of choice since prehistoric times in order to keep warm, look smart and show off wealth. And, of course, the 1960s fashion scene was no exception.