No,it wasn't the MODS,it was the hippies,who wanted to destroy everything about the world as it was. Of course,it was the "leaders",most of whom were RED DIAPER BABIES and funded by the KGB,who led the naifs,like so many Pied Pipers, but that's when dressing appropriately, good manners, self responsibility,politeness, and never using inappropriate speech got far more than just a toe in the door.
The "FREE SPEECH" and "FREE LOVE" and "DO YOUR OWN THING " (which was far MORE conformity,than what these barbarians were supposedly railing against!)movements is what changed,upended society.Few fought it then and now, more and more people just accept it all...making the F word ubiquitous,thusly making it a useless word,impolite behavior the norm,and destroying dress codes,so that those who follow this trend are nothing but "proles".
HELLO COMRADES;AS FOR ME,I'LL STAY THE DINOSAUR!
I would agree with that. My father in law was interning at the WSJ in NYC in the early 60's and he remembers when the transition from men wearing hats outside to men not wearing hats outside occured: 1963.
I would say that Jackie Kennedy had a lot to do w/ women not wearing hats, too because she had a public disdain for them. That's why she liked the Pillhat, the smaller, the better.
HELLO COMRADES;AS FOR ME,I'LL STAY THE DINOSAUR!
*** Are ya shure??? :o)
The hippies changed fashions during the time of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Wow, please tell us more.