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In the early 1970s, Vogue proclaimed "There are no rules in the fashion game now" [1] due to overproduction flooding the market with cheap synthetic clothing. Common items included mini skirts , bell-bottoms popularized by hippies , vintage clothing from the 1950s and earlier , and the androgynous glam rock and disco styles that introduced ...
In the early to mid 1950s, the precursor to the 1960s hippies emerged in New York. Black roll neck sweaters, sandals, sunglasses, striped shirts, horn rimmed glasses, and berets were popular among Beatniks of both sexes, and men often wore beards. [72]
From the late 1950s until the mid 1960s, Ivy League clothing was considered desirable mainstream apparel for American middle class adults. In Britain during the mid and late 60s, the Mod subculture combined the latest Italian fashions with the attire worn by the heroes in contemporary American films such as Steve McQueen , James Dean or Paul ...
Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed. The main article for this category is 1945–1960 in Western fashion . See also: Category:1950s clothing
Popular fashion themes of the rave subculture during the early 1990s included plastic aesthetics, various fetish fashions especially PVC miniskirts and tops, DIY and tie dye outfits, vintage 1970s clothing, second-hand optics, retro sportswear (such as Adidas tracksuits), and outfits themed around sex (showing much skin and nudity, e.g. wearing ...
Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th century Wild West. It ranges from accurate historical reproductions of American frontier clothing, to the stylized garments popularized by Western film and television or singing cowboys such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers in ...
In the early 2000s, celebrities like Reese Witherspoon and Renee Zellweger brought vintage clothing into the media by wearing vintage pieces to red carpets. [ 2 ] In the past decade, vintage clothing has become part of the movement towards environmental sustainability and sustainable fashion , and is an aspect of slow fashion, a concept coined ...
During the early 18th century the first fashion designers came to the fore as the leaders of fashion. In the 1720s, the queen's dressmaker Françoise Leclerc became sought-after by the women of the French aristocracy, [4] and in the mid century, Marie Madeleine Duchapt, Mademoiselle Alexandre and Le Sieur Beaulard all gained national recognition and expanded their customer base from the French ...