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The 60s Mini Skirt - 1960s Fashion History
Fashion Era ^ | 2006 | Pauline Weston Thomas

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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To: Lucky9teen

Far superior.


21 posted on 09/13/2006 11:37:40 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Yep.......and you are just the man to do it.....LOL


22 posted on 09/13/2006 11:50:49 AM PDT by marmar (Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, @ BLUE.)
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To: marmar

That's what I was thinking too.


23 posted on 09/13/2006 11:52:16 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Your such a trip..........


24 posted on 09/13/2006 12:01:49 PM PDT by marmar (Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, @ BLUE.)
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To: marmar

What a long, strange trip it's been....


25 posted on 09/13/2006 12:03:32 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Of that......I have no doubt.......LOL


26 posted on 09/13/2006 12:10:31 PM PDT by marmar (Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, @ BLUE.)
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To: marmar

27 posted on 09/13/2006 12:17:03 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

So.......now I know what you look like and how you strut...


28 posted on 09/13/2006 12:32:19 PM PDT by marmar (Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, @ BLUE.)
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To: pissant
Hey, pissant, check this out:


29 posted on 09/13/2006 1:23:11 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: marmar

That's a famous counterculture cartoon. I;m too mainstream for dat! ;o)


30 posted on 09/13/2006 1:27:56 PM PDT by pissant
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To: NCC-1701

How long before someone pulls over to help that?


31 posted on 09/13/2006 1:28:48 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

No time at all. I took the pic. Eat your heart out. :-)


32 posted on 09/13/2006 1:37:51 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: pissant

Just kidding about taking the pic. Wish I had, though.


33 posted on 09/13/2006 1:40:52 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: NCC-1701

Those heels are wicked.


34 posted on 09/13/2006 1:51:26 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

You betcha!!!


35 posted on 09/13/2006 1:57:13 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: pissant

Thanks for the link to that site - very interesting stuff on fashion of many eras.


36 posted on 09/13/2006 8:43:09 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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