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The 1970s began with a continuation of the hippie look from the 1960s, giving a distinct ethnic flavor. [13] Popular early 1970s fashions for women included Tie dye shirts, Mexican 'peasant' blouses, [14] folk-embroidered Hungarian blouses, ponchos, capes, [15] and military surplus clothing. [16]
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According to the fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert, the term "hot pants" was coined by Women's Wear Daily (WWD) in 1970 to describe fashions innovated by the French ready-to-wear company Dorothée Bis. [6] The WWD claim to have originated the term is also backed up by 1971 articles in The New York Times and the African-American magazine Jet.
Though the television show American Bandstand helped to "sanitize" the negative image of greasers in the 1960s and 1970s, sexual promiscuity was still seen as a key component of the modern character. [21] By the mid-1970s, the greaser image had become a quintessential part of 1950s nostalgia and cultural revival. [22]
Much of the 1970s fashion styles were influenced by the hippie movement. As well as the hippie look, the 70s also gave way to glam rock styles, started off by David Bowie who was named the King of Glam Rock. Glam was a genderbent and outlandish style. Significant fashion trends of the 1970s include:
A granny dress is a long one-piece gown or dress that was popular with young women in the United States and Britain from the mid-1960s to the 1970s. Granny dresses were loose-fitting and often printed with light or pastel colours, giving them a vaguely Victorian-era feel.
The concept of power dressing was brought to popularity by John T. Molloy's manuals Dress for success (1975) and Women: dress for success (1977), which suggest a gender specific professional dress code. Molloy's manuals addressed a new kind of female workers entering in a typical masculine environment recommending the skirted suit as a "uniform ...
Women in the hardcore scene typically wore army pants, band T-shirts, and hooded sweatshirts. [35] [36] The style of the 1980s hardcore scene contrasted with the more provocative fashion styles of late 1970s punk rockers (elaborate hairdos, torn clothes, patches, safety pins, studs, spikes, etc.).
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