1960’s in fashion for women. Who did women really wear in the swinging 60’s ? Trends, dresses, miniskirts, mod hairstyles and makeup. Where to buy them.
The 1960’s saw Paris pushed out of supremacy by the rise of street fashion. Mary Quant’s miniskirt and Vidal Sassoon’s pixie haircut as worn by Twiggy, just two of the highlights of the London look. The decade saw a revolution in youth culture led by The Beatles, which culminated in the hippy fashion of the late 60’s and early 70’s. The 1960’s psychedelic movement reignited the Belle Epoch Art Nouveau era. The decade coined the term “retro” and the A-line shift dress echoed the simple flapper dresses of the 1920’s.
Leading this retro fashion movement was Biba, which brought fashionable but affordable clothing via a mail order catalogs. Makeup, concentrated more on the eyes than on the lips. Go Go boots and pilgrim shoes were a must have accessory to go with the shorter skirt lengths. Stockings were out, and tights were most definitely in.
Fashion accessories like sunglasses and hobo bags all helped cement the look of women on the march towards freedom of expression.
Though Paris Haute Couture was on a temporary slide, it’s Left Bank art film movement La Nouvelle Vague still showed that the French were cool. The classic Nouvelle Vague look, exemplified by Anna Karina were woolly jumpers and cardigans paired with pencil skirts.
These are only the highlights of the fashion trends in the 1960’s. Enjoy our archive of posts on 1960’s fashion history.
Sixty Years of Women’s Foundation wear – 1905 Corset Originating from England, this s-curve corset made with floral brocaded silk, silk ribbon, and elastic. The Edwardian corset rested low over the bosom and extended down over the hips. The straight-front, when laced up provided the infamous s-curve which pushed breasts out, stomach in and back …
Necessity drives the future of Style – “There’s never a new fashion but it’s old” Geoffrey Chaucer What came before .. In 1902, a series of French postcards entitled “Les Femmes de l’Avenir” or Women of the Future, proved conclusively that – trapped as we are, in a linear dimension, few among us possess gifted …
Airport Chic from the 1960’s Kennedy Era A 1960s fashion infomercial by Johnston Wax presented as a women’s reality TV show. All that hairspray !! Every woman has her own figure and there is a correct colored clothing to enhance each figure. In addition, we’re going to give you advice on color, line and texture …
Mary Baldwin Girls in the 1960s – Continuing our peeks over the decades of student style from the students of Mary Baldwin College. These photographs from the iconic decade of the Sixties are more casual. Typical 1960s hairstyles and clothing and a real sense of the genre of change that was the 1960s. That’s all …
4 looks, 1 Decade: The 60’s – By Robyn Ashley Mod, rocker, hippy, beatnik, Hollywood glam – it’s impossible to define 1960s fashion through one style. In a decade of drastic and innovative developments in science and technology, a sartorial revolution was also stirring in the fashion world. London stamped its reputation as a cultural capital …
Bold, Beautiful and Young – The London Look may have typified the mod Sixties, but now at the tail of the decade, it is America once again, on the wing of the hippy revolution, where style takes precedence. New York City is a costume party for the young this summer, a party that is taking …
Oxfam seeks vintage style bloggers – In 2015, Oxfams online shop ad campaign featured six real Oxfam customers. This year Oxfam is calling on all vintage style bloggers. Sophie Bratt, project coordinator, encourages all those glamorous vintage blogging ladies ( & gents) who blog about their vintage passions, to enter a fabulous competition – Decades of Vintage Fashion …
Carousel Film Tribute to Paris – Anaïs Nin -“Paris intimate like a room.” Stills and Stories and a video tribute to Paris. Carousel – 140 Years of Parisian Cafe Culture – 1877 to 2015 Think of France, and you think of Parisian cafe’s, the Belle Epoch era, the paintings of Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Renoir, …
This year, Paris designers have decided it is not the season to be giddy. there are no high-jinks or low jinks – about hemlines, and except for Yves St Laurent, who is pushing pants for city wear, little commotion of any kind. The mood is haute sobriety and the dominant colour is black, with the …
When Miniskirts and Hijabs went together – ‘As a girl, I remember my mother wearing miniskirts and taking us to the cinema. My aunt went to university in Kabul.’ Horia Mosadiq – Amnesty UK Three decades of war, invasion and religious uprisings have sent Afghan women back into a dark age, not unlike women during …