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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 ...
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 ...
From the early 1950s until the mid-1960s, most Indian women maintained traditional dress such as the gagra choli, sari, and churidar. At the same time as the hippies of the late 1960s were imitating Indian fashions, however, some fashion conscious Indian and Ceylonese women began to incorporate modernist Western trends. [ 65 ]
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 ...
Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed. ... 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 15th; 16th ...
In the 1950s, pants became very narrow, and were worn ankle-length. Pants cropped to mid-calf were houseboy pants; shorter pants, to below the knee, were called pedal-pushers. Shorts were very short in the early 1950s, and mid-thigh length Bermuda shorts appeared around 1954 and remained fashionable through the remainder of the decade. Loose ...
By the 1950s, shoulder pads appeared only in jackets and coats—not in dresses, knitwear or blouses as they had previously during the heyday of the early 1940s. Some of the rounded-shoulder, barrel-shaped coats of the late 1950s, particularly those of Balenciaga [ 36 ] and Givenchy , [ 37 ] contained shoulder pads to widen the rounded line.
Mary Lillian White later Mary Dening (22 January 1930 – 20 May 2020) was an English textile designer known for several iconic textile prints of the 1950s. [1] [2] Her designs were very popular and extensively copied in many 1950s homes, as well as in cabins aboard the RMS Queen Mary and at Heathrow Airport. [3]