Posted on 09/13/2006 8:32:56 AM PDT by pissant
1960s Talent Talent was the prerequisite to success in the 1960s. For the first time ever in any fashion era, the young became the leaders of fashion. They led with new and radically innovative fashion styles, with little girl woman androgynous looks for women that swept away the sophisticated sweater girls of the early sixties. The picture of Twiggy in the header defines her as the epitome of a sixties baby doll woman.
Fifties Fashion Hangs on until 1966 In the 21st century it's easy to associate all 1960s fashion with short skirts, but the short skirt was not really worn by many until 1966 and not nationwide until 1967. Just as in the 1920s for half a decade clothes still showed signs of belonging to the late fifties. The fore runner of the mini dress the straight shift, which had developed from the 1957 sack dress, was still well below the knee.
In the early sixties, pleated skirts set on a hip yoke basque were worn with short sleeved over blouses which were cut not unlike the shell tops of today. Straight skirts had front and back inverted pleats called kick pleats and were ideal for doing the twist dance craze as they allowed the knee to move freely. Straight sweater dresses in lambswool or the synthetic acrylic variety called Orlon were worn belted with waists nipped in became fashionable.
Pencil skirts were still worn with sweaters or even back to front cardigans that had been pressed super flat. Before the days of tumble driers many women lay their washed rung out knitwear in paper tissue and then brown paper.
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You trying to sabotage this thread? LOL
Naw...must having some fun... :)
That does not look like fun. You aren't related to Asphalt are you?
'Nuff said.
There was a stylish store on the Sunset Strip that sold micro-minis. But the real innovation I hear is when the shop owner convinced the women to wear them without underwear.
All of this was told to me by people who hung around then/there.
two words on fashion - HOT PANTS (what can I say, I AM a legs man)
"She had on one of those dresses you could see through and DIDN'T WANNA!" - Lenny Bruce.
More than nuff!
No there is a fashion that needs a comeback.
You, me and 90% of the male population.
no = now
An improvement. Not sure about the gogo boots though.
Should have known you would be behind this one.......
Hey, somebody has to be the fashion police round here. ;o)
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