The hippie alternative style featured long skirts, bell-bottoms, colourful flowing clothing, paisley and lots of tie dyed material. And of course as we now know with the benefit of history, it was the hippie fashions of the late 60s which became the ‘trendsetters’ as it were for the fashions of the 1970s as more and more celebrities like George Harrison and Pattie Boyd took up the new hippie alternative. 1960s women's fashion One of the areas where girls did follow the trends of adults was in accessories. Young girls could be seen wearing the same brightly colored and patterned tights that young women wore with their miniskirts. Others might wear the shiny white go-go boots that went along with the Space Age fashions. In some ways, many of the adult styles actually took after young girl’s fashion rather than the other way around.
The decade opened with the presidency of John F. Kennedy, whose wife, Jacqueline, became an icon of a younger, more glamorous and liberated style. For example, her trademark pillbox hat, worn toward the back of her head, sparked a shift away from traditional women's millinery, and her wraparound sunglasses also went viral. Moreover, after Kennedy's Republican opponent, Richard Nixon, criticized her predilection from Paris couture, she also promoted the work of Oleg Cassini, Marimekko and other designers who brought Parisian style and artistic fabrics to the American market. Example of 60’s style in modern fashion It was the whole idea of a return to childhood that drove most of the fashion in the 1960s. Oversized collars, bows, and delicate trim miniaturized women and made them appear smaller. Shapeless mini dresses de-emphasized a woman’s natural form. The flat and boxy look took away women’s curves and made them little girls once more.
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