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Ah, the 1970s. A decade defined by the dissipation of “Beatlemania” and the rise of funk. By antiwar protests and hippie communes. By big, boisterous afros and large, wispy curls.
The iconic images of past protest movements bear at least one thing out: that dress is as much a political statement as a fashion one. In each iteration of the ongoing movement for civil rights ...
In 1971 hotpants and bell-bottomed trousers were popular fashion trends Diane von Fürstenberg's wrap dress, designed in the 1970s. Fashion in the 1970s was about individuality. 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.
Wigs became fashionable and were often worn to add style and height. The most important change in hairstyles at this time was that men and women wore androgynous styles that resembled each other. In the UK, it was the new fashion for mod women to cut their hair short and close to their heads. [100]
Fashion activism is the practice of using fashion as a medium for social, political, and environmental change. The term has been used recurringly in the works of designers and scholars Lynda Grose, Kate Fletcher, Mathilda Tham, Kirsi Niinimäki, Anja-Lisa Hirscher, Zoe Romano, and Orsola de Castro, as they refer to systemic social and political change through the means of fashion.
The polyester, the platforms, the smocks — let’s just say the looks of the Disco Decade weren’t all great. Here are some of the ugliest fashion trends of the 1970s.
CBS was the first major network to cover women's liberation when it aired coverage on 15 January 1970 of the D.C. Women's Liberation group's disruption of Senate hearings on birth control as a small item in their broadcast. Within a week, the women's protests became leading stories on both CBS and ABC.
MacKenny also writes that feminist performance Art had a large presence "in the late '60s and early '70s in America when, in the climate of protest constituted by the civil rights movement and second wave feminism." There are several movements that fall under the category of feminist performance art, including Feminist Postmodernism, which took ...