60's Fashions

[Jina James]

I read that fashions from the 60's are poised for a comeback.

Personally, I think I am ready for ladies' fashions from the 60's to return. Men's fashions -- I'm ambivalent.

Assuming the report is true, what do you think about it?

[Davita]

60s 50s 70s... We will just have to see what comes out of the era. See what they do to it. One thing is that being a big old girl, they better make some outfits for me too.

[Carol Ann]

Carol Ann is ready to R&R with full skirts and petticoats

[Sarah Beth]

I would really like to see some of the women's fashions fromteh 60's and 70's make a come back. of course that is the time period of my youth and so called formitive years so the women I looked at wore those things so I can relate.

As far as men's fashions go, it's sort of sad to think that, I wear pretty much the same things as a guy now that I did then. jeans and t shirts or western style shirts. Except that when I was in school they had a dress code and boys had to wear slacks to school and girls had to wear dresses or skirts and not too short of ones either. I can remember them having girls standing there so they could measure their skirt length. What the girls would do would be to wear a skirt that was knees length but then roll it up at the waist so it was short. That way if someone said something they could lengthen it in a hurry.

[Carol Ann]

Oh ya I can remember girls doing that after school before walking home

[Eileen (SO)]

In my pre teen days, Go-Go-boots were the hot thing to wear. 7th and 8th grade, panty hose and knee high boots. I don't miss those fashions! Hot looking but hot to wear. Skirt length was 'adjustable', of course. A comment by a well known DJ at the time commented that women's skirts were so high, we'd have two more cheeks to powder. The school had a an issue with the boots though. Never could figure out that logic.
The 60's was just before my awareness of fashion sense.

Eileen

[Jina James]

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Well, I didn't dream it after all. This is the link to the article I read. Prices a little high for my budget.

[Anne Bonny]

I remember having a 2" wide leather watch band that I used to smell....maybe that's what's wrong with me ...hum...the smell of sweaty leather....not quite like the flower a girl would wear on her wrist to a special dance. The 60's ... hum I was 12 in 1969 and I don't really remember being that concerned about fashion, It was more playing with GI Joe, I was a member of the GI Joe club woohoo... My sail boat was made in 1967 and I can still see that it was a nice boat back then and has held up well after 47 years. The 60's... I remember my sister had a fall or a hair piece with a comb in the front that would instantly give her long hair, I tried it a couple times but that was probably in the early 70's after she had abandoned it to a packing box in the garage back in the days when if I knew I would be home alone for a couple hours and the coast was clear I knew what boxes to look in to find girls clothes to try on. That was the era before home computing, many phones still had dials but the conversion to touch tone was in progress. Not even any pagers. People kept paper records and typed on typewriters and used a typing eraser with a little brush on one end, and some liquid paper to mend the holes or to cover what would not erase. Still have typewriters down stairs. All I knew was that I loved to put on girl's clothes but the selection was very poor. Big floral prints, piping on seams of a different color, back zip dresses that were just straight without curves. In the early 60's women were still wearing dresses at home frequently, and they wore hats too for special occasions I had a sister who was involved in quite a few beauty pageants and in social events where young ladies would be involved in events where they were all together and dressed up in their finery and ogled I suppose perhaps it was like putting their selves out there in the hope of attracting nice men or young gentlemen with a future. Hum....Not sure must be coming from Mad Men and I recall a lady who was in advertising in the 60's stating that the portrayal of women in advertising had flaws, was not accurate. Still nostalgia for an era...everything old is new again.

[ArleneMcCarthy]

In my opinion 1950's and early 1960's ladies fashions were the epitome of style, grace, and beauty.

[Janet Bern]

I really dont see any return to the 50's and 60's. Pantyhose changed the way woman dress.
Slowly they inched more and more toward dressing in mens clothes.
I hardly ever see a real dress on a woman. Younger women wear the real short ones
but they are more of a "look at me" show.

[MichelleZ]

Good, always wanted to wear some Hot Pants with nylons and heels

[Brenda Allen]

The 60's really were a time of significant changes...that carried into the 70's and beyond. Remember that the miniskirt had its real start as a fashion item during the later 60's...the miniskirt with "nylons" (pantyhose). There was also a break in lingerie from the previous generations which resulted in colored bras and panties that were skimpier. That all mellowed a bit in the 70's but the fashions were fun and retro could be a blast in this day and age. Oh and then there was the see-through blouse...

[Diana Michelle]

I really dont see any return to the 50's and 60's. Pantyhose changed the way woman dress.
Slowly they inched more and more toward dressing in mens clothes.
I hardly ever see a real dress on a woman. Younger women wear the real short ones
but they are more of a "look at me" show.

Yes you are somewhat correct Janet however I think you may have it reversed. It was the mini-skirt of the mid to late 60's that spawned the growth and acceptance of pantyhose. Having been born in 1953 I was in high school when the mini-skirt first became popular and I remember watching many a girl tug at her hem to keep her stocking tops and girdle or garters hidden from the leceherous view of us over hormone enraged young teen aged boys. Sure there may have been a few of us that leered to wonder how we would look in that cute pink girdle but most were staring and wondering how they could get them off the girls! I have to admit I have seen more dresses and skirts recently than in recent memory.

I know to many of you dressing means a skirt, heels, and hose, But for someone that has been doing it for over half her life believe me there are many situation s where shorts, or slacks, or jeans are a God send. I don't think any woman would want to go back to the days of the 1950's or early 60's were firm girdles and bullet bras were the fashion, believe me they are not comfortable at all when it is your hips or breasts being squeezed and contorted into a shape just to appease some fashion designer. Not that we all don't want to look slender and svelte, the rise of shapewear shows that, still there is a difference between being persuaded and shoved!

I have seen my step granddaughters wear outfits that would have fit right back in the 60's from my memory. They are cute on them as many young girls. Yes there is a part of me that regrets not having been able to wear those fashions back then as I grew up but that is life. Trust me at 61 I have no intentions of running out and buying some hot pants and go-go boots!

[Heather W]

I am a little young to remember the 60's fashions except through pictures and old movies on TV. I do have to admit they do look like they were fun, especially the hot pants and go-go boots. I have seen a few pictures of my mother from back then, she was a teen ager then, and she was certainly hot looking. I wonder what it would have been like if I was around in those days?

[ArleneMcCarthy]

I like early 1960's fashion, but I really adore 1950's ladies fashion. To moi that period was the epitome of ladies fashion.