Feelin 'Groovy: High School Fashion 1969

Unlike traditional and popular styles of a few decades - the Gibson Girl of the 1890s and early 1900s, the valve of the Roaring Twenties, the "New Look" of the fifties - there was no single style prevailing in the 1960s. Even as a slim-fitting trousers and dresses late fifties quarters crept in miniskirts and go-go boots have mod their way from London prior to thoroughly with jeans legs and fringed vests mix last part of the decade. In 1969, the fashion choices were varied from tens of millions of young American men and women and changing the world around them. A "bizarre new freedom," called LIFE. Was it ever! Cultural change is an unstoppable force in the sixties and throughout the Americas and around the world civil rights, women's and gay liberation, the sexual revolution and, of course, the explosive soundtrack of R & B, soul and rock and roll all knowledge of the policy in vogue. Constant change, meanwhile, is the only constant in human affairs - and in the 1960s, the technology has now advanced to the point where events and movements in a corner of the world are available on campus and in the community. While global telecommunication networks increased at-once bigger, faster and sophisticated, America has increased, in a sense, much smaller. The great and almost visionary national road network had spread throughout the country in the post-World War II years, more households than ever a car owned (or two), and for the first time, has air travel was always a viable option for many American families. In the 1960s, the number of passengers over the last decade has since quadrupled. This mobility has views of both the literal and figurative countless Americans opened - although most not able to drive in Haight-Ashbury, or explore the Far East in person, they would have seen these places on TV and in the large photo published in weekly and monthly magazines and countless more in the newspapers. At least a million households had a television in the 1940s, two decades later, this number had increased more than forty times. The August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, the day after the assassination of JFK ('S and MLK and RFK), the Vietnam War, the' landing in 1969 - all these people and era defining moments and many others have been broadcast in the halls from Maine to California, from Alaska to Florida. Was the way the message? That was the message in the middle? For most people, it really does not matter anyway, as the photos, music, fashion, movements that came and went with dizzying speed - as long as it all came back. In 1969, the American youth had drenched not only in visual and auditory stimuli in a couple of years of self-expression most previous generations combined, but re-imagined dress almost every post in this form. Given this news, the overall sensitivity, "beautiful Indian dress leather" Beverly Hills High School Rosemary Shoong (Slide # 1 in the gallery above) is not only a dress was homemade. There was a time and a place, man. And he was out of sight.