Part 1 Introduction
Part 3 The Military Look
Part 4 Hippie Accessories
Last week’s post was a short history of how and why hippy fashions developed but now we look at individual facets of hippy fashion and hippy ideas to see how the look was created.
All fashion is a restatement of what has gone before, there is nothing new, and hippy fashion exploited this to the full. Many old crafts were resurrected, artistically changed and put to work decorating the mix of Victorian (and older) styles and ideas which form the basis of hippy clothing. It was a colourful time, a time of rustic charm and harmony in complete contrast to the period that had gone before and nowhere was this more obvious than in the process of tie-dying.
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.
This was very much a return to the 18th century sandwiched in between the neat and stylish hairstyles of the 1950s and the bitty, anything-will-do hippy styles later in the decade. 
Talk about the 1960s and people say – there was a revolution in fashion, wasn’t there? In fact, compared to the decades that had gone before, it was more a bombshell than a revolution!