1960s style and fashion ideas 9 Articles

by Lesley Allen

I spent the early 1960s trying to persuade my mother that a net petticoat was essential if my skirts were to stand out as much as those the girls wore in The Young Ones to attract Cliff Richard's attention. Unfortunately, ...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

The Swinging Sixties was a restless time.Stifled by the conservative ideas and ideals of a generation that had come through World Wars and a certainly poverty that went hand in hand with that lifestyle, the sixties teens b...read more

by Currie Jean

While the 1950s brought mainstream Western culture into wide consumption, the 1960s was steeped in counterculture: young people rebelled against the singularity of the previous decade, spreading the news that there was mor...read more

by Violet Fortune

1960s style and fashion ideas As a young teenybopper, I wore white Go-Go boots, Mary Jane shoes, flowers in my hair and plenty of Day-Glo and psychedelic textiles. Designer Mary Quant was my fashion hero; Biba, Courrege...read more

by Micha E

Women's Fashion in the 1960's When you think of women's fashion in the 1960's, you think of vibrant colors and flower power, bare feet and long hair. But for the first half of the 60's, American style was just a branch ...read more

by Gail Kavanagh

Forget about Twiggy. Who was she? Jane Asher was the girl we wanted to be. A fabulous red headed dolly bird with big panda eyes and super legs for those mini-skirts. And she had the cutest Beatle for a boyfriend, blast ...read more

by Summer Tyme

We're called 'baby-boomers' because our parents had us right after the last world war and because there were so many, it was a 'boom' in babies after some years with a lower birth rate. Many of us were teenagers during th...read more

by Patricia Young

In the swinging 60s sex, drugs and rock n roll - there was a certain universal freedom around and young people traveled the world like never before. Elvis fever was frantic, and bands like The Rolling Stones' and The Beat...read more

by Rose Conrad

Growing up as a child in London during the "swinging sixties" was a most exciting time. As the song once famously said "England swings like a pendulum", and it was most certainly true. Fashion together with pop music (reme...read more