Fashion

1. Fashion in The 60's By: Mitsuko Saito, William Leverick & Roshini Daswani

2. Mary Quant dresses; the one and only who started the whole mini skirt era. Even grandmother’s would wear them! Hippie;s look. the ‘space-age’ look by Courreges In the 60s pants became an accepted fashion garment for women. The different styles were hipsters, bell bottoms and sailor trousers. Pants for women were part of the new unisex fashion style that was becoming popular and the distinction between men and women’s clothing became less and less.

3. Chelsea boots Men • For men there was refinement rather than any real innovation. Suits became more tightly fitting, and Chelsea Boots became fashionable. For generations of men the office shirt had always been white. Suddenly the trendy young man could cut a dash with waist-hugging shirts in a wide range of pastel shades. • In Britain, the Mods began as a minority group deeply concerned with their immaculate appearance, but from 1963 onwards they received national coverage and showed that men could care about the clothes they wore, an attitude that was to allow real changes as the decade progressed. • The Hippie movement, which first began in California from around 1967 onwards spread to the rest of America and to other countries as well, nurtured a form of anti-fashion in which virtually all types of clothing were permissible, whether long or short, new or second-hand, patterned or plain, as long as the materials were natural.

4. Perky Girls In the mid-60's perky girls wore, A-line dresses and polka-dot, stretch, knit panty hose. With the help of cosmetics, they were able to fake the natural look. They used: • heavy false eyelashes • translucent face powder applied a thick coating • sheer lip-gloss in ‘nude’ shades The common hairstyles were the Bubble cut or the Flip-hair-do

5. Hairstyles Named the "The Face of 1966" supermodel Twiggy sported an ultrashort hairdo which was compatible with her boyish figure. Curls were all the rage. Big deep ones, small tight ones and even spit curls Only young people could wear the longer straight styles.

6. Teenage Hairstyles Teens were more likely to wear their hair loose.

7. "Thin is in" • The 'thin is in' slogan was born. This look was rebellion against the older generation but was also a result of war-time rationing. The effects of which were still being felt in Great Britain. Women everywhere began to believe the saying 'you can never be too rich or too thin.' Twiggy had the ideal figure and modelled perfectly in tight mini-dresses. Model Jean Shrimpton also had the perfect look. like Actresses Mia Farrow and Audrey Hepburn became very popular due to their ‘toothpick’ look.

8. Her real name was Lesley Hornby and she started modelling at age 15 when she weighed about 41 kg. This is why she became known as 'Twiggy'. Twiggy was a natural model of the perfect 60's shape described by John Bates in 1965: ‘narrow body, perfect square shoulders, long legs, small bust.’