Fashion

The 1960’s clothing styles developed along simpler, more youthful lines. It was the decade that had it’s own fashions directed specifically at teenagers. Before the 60’s, teenagers dressed like their parents. The Mod movement of the early 1960’s originated as such a youth subculture. However, by the mid 1960’s it had evolved into a more generalized yet at the same time more outrageous form of fashion. It led to an explosion of the youth culture, which gave all teenagers a style of dress they could call their own. This style was very revolutionary but it eventually influenced the fashions of the entire decade for people of all ages, changing fashions from mass-market clothes all the way up to the haute couture industry. 1960’s “fashion became more youthful; they became simpler, shorter, and brighter.”1 By th

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It was the decade for major changes in fashion. Their fashionable cutting-edge threads and make-up made them favourites amongst the London nightclub circuit. Hip-Hop idols were the first to do this, which has brought them success in the fashion industry. For more casual wear the mods wore Sta-prest trousers, slimmer in cut, and Fred Perry of Ben Sherman shirts. She wore tight fitting underwear, corsets and black tights on stage and started a fashion for the bustier top. Madonna influenced a lot of teenagers of this era; she deliberately set out to shock people with her outrageous fashions.

By the late 90’s, early 00’s the rave scene got smarter, it wasn’t now just about the music but more about the image. Lycra and spandex became popular materials to be used, usually coloured in brilliant greens and pinks. People had to have tried to look right to gain entry to clubs. Gold lame, leopard skin and stretched halter jumpsuits and white clothes that glowed in Ultra Violet lights capture the era perfectly. The rave scene wasn’t about certain individual people; it was about the music, which was perhaps the reason as to why fewer idols were being copied.

The first evidence I had of this was from the Mods and their rivalry with the Rockers, two different styles of music and two different styles of fashion. This style was the gangster look, which consists of baggy jeans, hooded tops, trainers and a baseball cap, mainly promoting drugs. Hot pants and knee high boots with skimpy tops seemed to be the fashion, but on the street they wore bell–bottoms, platform boots and even dog collars which all looked very sixties and retro.

In the beginning of the 1980’s women mainly wore bell-bottoms and little t-shirts.

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