Showing posts with label 60s fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 60s fashion. Show all posts

I'm a Sucker For...

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My Mom Says That I'm a Reincarnated This.....

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Hippie!

Is it possible that I could be a reborn hippie? Like someone who was around in those days died and I was born as them? If so, cool! Or in hippie slang, groovy!! LMAO.














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60s Glasses- Love Them!!

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This is either John Lennon from The Beatles or Steve Marriott from The Small Faces

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A Dedicated Follower of Fashion?

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Fashion

Haute
-High fashion
-Colors: Unusual and rare
-Lies: Layered, fitted to suit
-Textures: Unusual, rare materials
-Needs: Custom-made, designer's originals, pricey
-Effects: 1 of a kind, leader, unique, tres chic
-Favorite accessory: coordinated matching and custom made pieces
Elegant
-Expensive designer's reproduction
-Colors:Unusual, muted, solid colors(gray, black, white)
-Lines: Well fitted(Chanel type)
-Textures: Fine fabrics, expensive materials
-Needs: semi custom made, altered to fit
-Effects: Very refined, status and executive looking
-Favorite accessory: gold and diamond accessories
Dramatic
-Theatrical, glamorous, glitzy
-Colors: Strong, vivid, (black is good)
-Lines: severe, sharp, asymmetrical
-Textures: Rare and trendy
-Needs: custom made, altered to fit
-Effects: confident, chic, sexy, catchy
-Favorite accessory: Bold statement, usually metallic, such as gold, silver, or bronzes
Classic
-Town & country, emphasis of business/corporate look
-Colors: Beige, navy, red, blue and black
-Lines: simple and traditional
-Textures: Durable, natural fibers
-Needs: Timeless appeal year after year
-Effects: Typcal leader, conservative, practical
-Favorite accessory: traditional, conservative shapes
-Good example: Chanel
Conservative
-Feminine/demure
-Colors: pastels, soft colors, soft blends, soft rainbows
-Lines: simple flows, rounded curves and semi fittted
-Textures: Light, flowing, lace, old fashioned, small print
-Needs: Gentle, delicate, price not a problem
-Effects: Fragile, soft, charming, innocent, very feminine
-Favorite accessory: simple real gold and diamonds
Western
-Country
-Colors: earth tones
-Lines: durable, simple, easy
-Textures: natural fibers, denim, thick and old fashioned
-Needs: durability, mobility, price no problem
-Effects: tough, strong
-Favorite accessory: leather boots, water resistant watch, thick belt
Casual
-Feeling at home
-Colors: Any
-Lines: unstructured, simple, easy
-Textures: popular(synthetic, natural, etc)
-Needs: easy care, comfortable
-Effects: easy going, athletic, simple
-Favorite accessory: cloth bag, disposables
Grunge
-Made popular during the early 90s.
-Colors: Any
-Lines: unusual, exaggerated
-Textures: popular(synthetic, natural), knits
-Needs: easy pieces, sometimes wildly and unusually inexpensive
-Effects: Youthful, confident, most designs die quickly
-Favorite accessory: all kinds
Futuristic
-Star Trek like
-Colors: strong metallics(gold, silver)
-Lines: angular, sharp
-Textures: Hard, bold, round, square
-Needs: bold statement
-Effects: impractical to present times
-Favorite accessory: bold geometric designs(earrings, rings, bags)
Vintage
-Refers to new or 2nd hand clothing from previous eras
-Colors: soft colors, light colors, summery colors
-Lines: soft lines
-Textures: satin, lace, silk, velvet
-Needs: to feel beautiful
-Effects: beauty, elegant
-Fave Accessory: simple gold and silver
Goth 
-Characterized by horror movies, black, metal studs, etc. Basically looks like you're going to a Victorian funeral
-Colors: black EVERYTHING!
-Lines: straight, jagged
-Textures: fishnet, lace, leather, metal, silver, steel, velvet,
-Needs: fashionable
-Effects: Neo-Victorian fashion, dark makeup and clothing, dark hair with equally dark highlights, looks like funeral clothes, deathly pale skintones, macabre items/religious(crosses, skulls, pentacles, rosaries, bone earrings, etc)
-Fave Accessory: macabre/religious items(bone earrings, rosaries, ankhs, metal studs, spiked dog collars, gauges in ears, deathly pallor, messy black hair, stove pipe hats, leather clothes, black makeup, thigh high leather boots or just leather boots in general, fishnet stockings
Preppy
-College, Ivy League University-like look
-Colors: earth colors, cool colors
-Lines: straight
-Textures: none
-Needs: special care for sweaters
-Effects: Argyle sweaters, chinos, madras, button down Oxford cloth shirts, boat shoes
-Fave Accessory:
-Ex: Polo, Ralph Lauren
Emo
-Japanese pop looking
-Colors: bright, neon, blue, pink, red, bleached blonde
-Lines: none
-Textures: denim, leather
-Needs: bold statement
-Effects: fan of rock music
-Fave Accessory: studded belts, black wristbands, thick black horn-rimmed glasses

Hippie
-Inspired by the nature loving 'beatniks' of the 1960s
-Colors: earth tones, any
-Lines: none
-Textures: denim, corduroy, suede, leather
-Needs: none
-Effects: for retro loving types
-Fave accesories: peace medallion, bellbottoms, flip flops, granny glasses, headbands, flowers in hair

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1960s Fads

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Ever wonder what was popular during the 60s? Now you can find out!!!

I think this was definitely my generation. That's what my mom tells me, lol. I think I really belong here, things seemed so much simpler then......

American Bandstand
Lava Lamps

Hair Ironing
Twister(game)

Motown Sound
Bellbottoms

Surfing
Mood rings
White Gloves
Nehru Jackets
Afros
Woodstock festival
I wonder where I am?

Counter Culture

Men wearing beads
GI Joe
The Beatles

Granny Glasses. Became popular with John Lennon
Usage of LSD
Slogan buttons
Hippie Beads
The Ed Sullivan Show
British Invasion(music)
The Dave Clark Five

Gerry and the Pacemakers

The Kinks

Eric Burdon and the Animals

The Rolling Stones

Miniskirts

The Mod look

Wide belts

Hippies
Peasant skirts
Pop art

Slot cars

Mickey Mouse Club
Beach Parties/Beach movies
Go-go boots

Psychadelic
Paisley(design)
Barbie dolls

Twiggy look- boyish figure, cropped hair

Peace sign
Smiley Faces

Pinstriped suits. I think these were more popular in Swinging London
Tie-dye

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