1960-1969

 

                     

"The late 1960s were the exact opposite. Bright, swirling colors. Psychedelic, tie-dye shirts and long hair and beards were commonplace. Woman wore unbelievably short skirts and men wore tunics and capes. The foray into fantasy would not have been believed by people just a decade earlier. 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.For the first time in the 19th Century, London, not Paris, was the center of the fashion world. The British Invasion didn’t stop with The Beatles. It swept into all parts of life, especially clothing."http://www.retrowaste.com/1960s/fashion-in-the-1960s/

The 1960's was the total opposite of the previous years. They styles of the dresses caned completely. Dresses began to get shorter, More brighter colors came a long and the new invention "Bikini" was introduced. styles kept changing in the 1960's. In 1961, a casual custom look was introduces, 1992, the wear for a lot of glow in dresses, 1993, knee-high skirts and sleeveless dresses, 1994, very short clothing and brighter colors, The 1995's brought a new look called "poor boy" in which they wore cow boy hats, white dress with white flat boots.

Origin: Most of the fashion in the US was taken from the fashion in London. Many designers in London were changing the styles of clothing and introducing new trends in fashion.

Purpose: The purpose of these dresses was to show that women were independent and were free to do what they wanted to. 

Value: During the 1968, many new technology like rattling chains, zippers, brass buttons, clamps were introduced which were used on many women clothing. 

Limitations: During the 1960's there were many fighting for rights like the "i have a dream speech" and African Americans wanting equality. This Item doesn't tell  much about what it was like and what hardship the US was going through.