Fashion in the 1960s

Fashion In The 1960s. In the mid-1960s fashion began to take cues from London and the waistline reappeared. 1960s fashion was bi-polar in just about every way. Womenswear followed three broad trends. Fashion in the 1960s became progressively more casual across all genders and ages.

The early sixties were more reminiscent of the 1950s conservative and restrained. Moving away from the prim and proper 50s and into rebellious new times 60s fashion was revolutionary. If 1960s Fashion Mod Fashion had just one innovator that title would have to go to Mary Quant. In the mid-1960s fashion began to take cues from London and the waistline reappeared. If the 60s were a person you could say it was coming of age. Womenswear followed three broad trends.

If 1960s Fashion Mod Fashion had just one innovator that title would have to go to Mary Quant.

This is the beginning of what would be called the London Look Her miniskirts and colored tights challenged the fashion world to move in a new direction. A stoned blonde girl in a short black and white op-art dress white tights and red Mary-Janes stood behind a frazzled long-haired man. Conservative and traditional yet in-your-face and experimental at the same time. If the 60s were a person you could say it was coming of age. The Swinging Sixties and The Roaring Twenties were the only decades to be given names that instantly conveyed the lighter side of life. The artwork was hilarious.