1960s Fashion Trends

The fashion trends of the 1960s and their transformation seemed to reflect the events that were occurring in the decade around the same time. Fashion progressively became uniform and harmonized with the transition from the beginning of the decade to the end. Both women and men’s fashion senses resembled their thoughts, feelings, and outlooks on what what happening around them. The early 60s fashion trends were still seemingly stuck in the 50s: conservative, moderate, and simple; following the rules and a general consensus in a way. The later 60s, however, were filled with color and brilliant garments, as people began to break away from the norm and create their own diversified identities. With the traditional and guarded decade of the 1950s over, the 1960s gave way to vivid and showy wardrobes. As said in an article by RetroWaste, “It’s almost like the 1950s bottled everyone up so much that the late 1960s exploded like an old pressure cooker”. Women were showing more skin than ever before with their mini skirts and and dresses and men were certainly expanding their fashion senses as well. By 1961, fashion was slowly beginning to detach from the hold of the 50s and evolve into something that both men and women took pleasure in putting time and effort into. The costume look was a prevailing style for fashionable women of the early sixties. A simply cut dress and a classic bouffant hairdo were the every day norm, known as the “little nothing” look. A subtle inward curve at