Nothing like Sixties !!

 Hello there, In today’s post I m gonna talk about the 1960′s fun and flares.

The 1960′s term also refers to an era more often called the sixties. This was the era which was irresponsible excess and flamboyance and the decade was labeled as the Swinging Sixties because  of the fall or relaxation of some social taboos especially relating to sexism and racism that occurred during this time.For the first time ever in any fashion era, the young became the leaders of fashion.

Ever imagined how did we survived this era ?

It was fun for me while I was doing my research work about 60′s to understand the air during that era.

I can say is First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested from diabetes.  Full employment and a school leaving age of 15 teenagers had plenty of money to spend. They spend it on music, clothes , scooters or motorbikes but never had any helmets , not to mention, the risks they took hitchhiking. They were often married by their early twenties so this period of freedom was short.

                             About the Fashion in 60′s

I should say earlier 60′s didn’t  begin with colorful clothes. Most of the clothes in the beginning were dull and looked better on old people. But not to far into the 60′s, boutiques began opening up which sold must cheap colorful clothing to the youth and then Fashion created a youth desire, independence and a valuable form of self expression.

So What was it about the fashion in the 60′s ?

Why was it so important ? and What role did it play in Fashion ?

It was women who wore suits with boxy jackets and over sized buttons, simple geometric dresses known as shift dress were also in style, full skirted gowns that had close fitting waists ,  Stiletto-heeled shoes and oh I forget the mini skirt by Mary Quant.