- Miniskirts were all the rage in the 1960's, which infuriated the older generations. The skirts kept getting shorter & shorter as time went on. Efforts to control the trend by introducing a skirt called the 'midi', but that style proved to not be as popular as the mini. The minidress also appeared during this time, featuring stripes, waves, & Pop Art designs.
- The Paper Dress was a fashion trend durinng the 1960's which was advertised as clothing that you could throw out after wearing a few times without feeling guilty. First started as a gimick by Scott Paper Company, the clothes stayed popular for over a year.
- The Topless Bathing Suit was an interestiing fashion trend. It started as a joke & ended up becoming semi-popular, due in part to the new freedoms that people were testing out & experiencing for the first time during the decade. Women wearing such suits were frequently arrested for indecent exposure.
- Twiggy, a British model, became very popuular. The tiny model, with the unreal proportions [5'6" & weighing 90 pounds] was looked upon as a fashion idol. Her success wasn't quite as grand in American as it was overseas, however. Her clothing line did not do very well in the US because although women would have liked to be the same size as her, they were not willing to basically starve themselves in order to fit into her creations. Even without the success of a clothing line, she was still able to build a multi million dollar empire & become an icon of the times.
- The Mod Scene, which included patterned sshirts & low-slung hipster pants for men was popular for a short while, but fizzled out in a hurry. Mod was all about being different, & when the clothes became popular & everyone started wearing them, the scene suddenly became what it had been trying hard not to become- this is why the look didn't last very long.
- Other popular menswear items included thee Nehru jacket, which was based on an Indian jacket, & turtlenecks. Long hair for men, based in part on the Beatles' mop tops, was also considered to be very stylish.
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Amusing Hair Related Stories From 1965:
[The
following information is from The
Pop Sixties by Andrew J. Edelstein & is reprinted in the
exact same order & wording as it appears on page 179.]
- In Cleveland, a distraught gym teacher ordered his shaggy students to wear hair nets.
- In Los Angeles, a jury convicted a boy off disturbing the peace for refusing to cut his hair.
- In Kentucky, a father bought his longhairred son a dog license, compelete with tag.
