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Kennedy Era. Ivy league/preppie tailored clothes for men, use of men's hats decreases. Designer fashions for women. Jackie Kennedy - pillbox hat, bouffant hair, coats with large buttons. |
Jackie Kennedy look ensemble coat and dress, boxy suit, pillbox hat. |
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Short sleeved day dresses. Flowerpot hat, Audrey Hepburn look. |
Mohair sweaters and stirrup pants influenced by the first televised Olympics at Squaw Valley. |
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Italian - Sophia Loren look. Hostess top and toreador/capri pants. |
Bikini bathing suits named for Bikini Atoll in Pacific where atomic testing was done. |
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Moon girl look. Inspired by space exploration and moon landing. Also revivalof the Gothic look surcoat from the movie Camelot. |
Beatles rock group. Nearly overnight young men started growing their hair long. Ushered in the English Carnaby Street look of fashions. |
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Uni-sex look - Men and women dressing the same. Bold prints and stripes for both men and women. |
Hippies/flower children antiestablishment, counter culture group. Experimented with drugs, sex, communal living. Were a part of the general anti - Vietnam War protest movement. |
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Mini skirt, love beads, long straight-ironed hair, often accompanied by Go - Go boots. Introduced by London designer Mary Quant. |
Hot pants, short shorts, butterfly collar blouses with billowy sleeves. |
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Civil Rights movement. Forced integration, marches, rights, strikes. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Black Power Movement, ethnic apparel. |
Woodstock Rock Festival, Woodstock, NY, 1969 |
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Levi's blue jeans become a form of protest and a virtual uniform of the youth. Long shoulder length hair for men and women. |