1960s Style - What Women Wore in 1960s America
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Join me as we take a step back in time to the 1960s - an era of great change in America in general and in American fashion in particular.
From mini skirts to go-go boots, we take a look at the styles that were all the rage in the 1960s. We'll also talk about shift dresses, A-line dresses, mod style and hippie style. Fashion styles were changing fast in the sixties and we'll get a look at it all!
Most of these images are simply candid photos of life in the 1960s. A couple of celebrities appear - British model, Twiggy, and Norwegian actress, Julie Ege.
Most of the photos are original color prints, and the rest have been colorized.
Thanks for joining me for this look at women's fashions of the 1960s - I hope you enjoy the show!
#1960s , #lifeinamerica , #vintagestyle - Zábava
60’s was always my favorite era. The dresses, the go go boots and the hair do’s!
I was a teen in the early 70's and we still wore many of these clothes. Loved them!
💯👍
I agree with you
You are correct!
In the late 60s as a pre-teen, what made mini skirts and dresses more practical for everyday wear, was the availability of quality and lesser priced panty hose. I started off with a garter belt ( b/c that is what my mom bought for me) and those are just not easy to keep hidden with miniskirts. Simplicity patterns made it easy to pick out wild fabrics to sew. I enjoyed the creativity and expression of sewing some of my clothes then.
True. I loved sewing then. Now patterns are expensive and don’t get me started on fabric…
Was in my mid teens in the mid 60’s and just loved the styles we wore: the mini, maxi, over the knee boots, teased hair. I drew the line at white lipstick lol.
I wasn't around at the time, but I think I would've liked to have been. Seems like a fun decade!
@@TheHistoryLounge Yes, thank you
Me too! I drew the line at white lipstick BUT, often my shade of pink almost looked white! I have great legs to this day so mini-shirts and hot pants were perfect for me! I know our style wasn't for everyone but the easing of fashion 'rules' was wonderful! Our motto was 'if it feels good do it'! No other decade had such freeing clothing and we were the first to embrace jeans on women as a go to outfit. My favorite wear were bell bottoms and the more Cher-like the better. I loved my bells and now at 70, I still wear boot cut jeans as the closest to bells as I can find. I don't really have a waist, not one that looks good belted so I really lucked out not being born earlier because the 50's would have probably turned me into a nun.
@@TheHistoryLoungeWhat songs were used in this video?
50s ane 60s were the most geat era. The most beautiful cars, fashion, music and everything else.
Having been born in 1960, I remember so much of these styles! My aunt was wearing much of these styles - and many that you see on Mad Men show (since she was an office gal in her twenties)
I wore more of the late 60's into the 70's clothes as I grew up nto my pre-teen/teen years.
I definitely still like wearing the shift or A line dresses or sundresses from that era ( easy to wear & very cool on hot days)
Another thing, you definitely had to learn how to sit in mini skirts! Many of girls today would be flashing everyone because of the way most sit! 😧😳😵😲
You always wore stockings of some sort. Pantyhose or fishnets with garter belts or even girdles. (Light ones).
I grew up in the 60s 70s and the one thing I remember is Hot Pants.
What a great time to be young for so many reasons.
Sad to think that a lot of these people have already passed !
Unless you were a guy due to be drafted.
unless you were a minority
But the US "involvement" in Vietnam wasn't one of tem!
Many of these are right, but it’s important to remember not everything was easy. My high school didn’t allow pants for females until 1971, and even then they had to be slacks, not jeans. Before that it was skirts or dresses no matter how cold. Anyone who lived less than a mile from school had to walk. We had weird gym uniforms we had to wear. Stockings were worn with garter belts and ran if you looked at them wrong. Every girl had a bottle of clear nail polish in their purse to stop stocking runs. And the colors didn’t begin to match most skin tones. Don’t get me started on the torture devices we had to wear when it was that time of the month. Still, some of the outfits I had during that time were some of my lifetime favorites.
I never minded wearing skirts- we had long coats, leggings and boots to stay warm. I walked to school- as you said if we lived under a mile, we walked!
We were allowed slacks the year I graduated but parents weren't going to spend money on new clothes in senior year so we still wore mostly skirts.
Yeah, there were inconveniences but I loved those years.
And the damned US Supreme Court decided public schools could not only enforce "dress codes," but limit hair length. The public just didn't buy it, and those
restrictions have mostly disappeared, or at least have become less restrictive.
Great points KristinB!! I remember that it was indeed a big deal when girls were allowed to wear pants or slacks or jeans, especially. At some point in the early 70s many girls in Junior High were not wearing bras or panties, which for us guys was both glorious and raised our heart rates to dangerous levels! The gym clothes for girls were indeed very unflattering but somehow they managed to still look great. I think us guys were totally unaware of the stuff you are pointing out that was part of everyday experience for the gals. We were just trying to cover up pimples and figure out which pocket to keep our comb in.
Wow.. Great 👍 video,, I grew up in the 60s 70s 80s and of course today but today in 2023 it's not like in those days the clothes that hairdos the shoes the boots the dancing was great my favorite was the bell bottom pants 👖.. and avalor shirts and satin shirts. The cars were great and to this day I only drive 70s cars 🚗🛣️.... Thank you for this video 🎥 it was great..
Hey Ronald- Thanks again for watching and for taking the time to comment. I'm glad you liked the video!
А что такое авалорские рубашки? Спасибо за ответ и интересный комментарий)
Of course, all us guys loved the styles and especially the miniskirts! However, the smell of Aqua-net hairspray is indelibly etched into my brain, and THAT I could do without!
Ha, ha!!!
Aqua net is just about, if not impossible to find today so you are safe.
LOL
Win some lose some. Needed Aqua-net to hold those hair styles😅🤣
Aqua-Net ate not just your brain but the ozone layer!!! I remember those big aerosol spray cans on my mom's dressing table...
A lot of these styles I wore. I remember it all. The teased hair was one of those things that I'm glad went out. I swear, women of that era still wear that style today.
What an excellent tour back through those times... it feels like I just returned from a visit there... Thanks.
Hey Grandma a nice pair of legs back then! Think about these people are mid-seventies and older. That's why it's nice to see these wonderful pictures from days gone bye because it lets us I have an insight to what life might have been back 60 years ago. Always enjoy seeing the pictures from those decades and seeing how much people have changed as well as cars and buildings.
Got to admit the 60's had some kool looking outfits and hair styles of the time.
Agreed! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I graduated in 1964. It was a change no doubt. Don't forget the short lived mini paper dress. Yes I had one. Wore it once. Had visions of it tearing. 🤣 would do the 60s over again and make some different choices. Yes cars had class back then. Today's all look the same. Boxes on wheels🤦♀️
And the clothes were fun to wear and many styles like peasant dresses and bolero vests I could whip up on my sewing machine in a couple of hours.
Thanks for a groovy look back at the Swinging 1960's fashions.
I was living in Japan during the 60s but this type of fashion was creeping up in the cities. I myself wore bellbottoms at the end of the 60s, as many young people did, and sometimes coordinated it with some tie-dyed shirts.
A wonderful time of life! Women didn't have bolts, ink, and hooks! Beautiful and full of class!
who cares what you think, power to women
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Loved the style dress called A shape. So neat looking.
Growing up in the 1960's and 1970's, I always loved the mini skirts with women wearing stockings or pantyhose!! Those ladies turned my world upside down!! :)
I'm 70 years old and remember the 60's very well. Another thing back then was women were women and were very feminine as compared to todays female. No tattoos and not nearly as many overweight people walking around as today. My sister was three years older and I always enjoyed when her friends came over. :}
Yeah, obesity is really becoming a problem. We have much easier access to fat food and less motives to have an active lifestyle. I love technology and social media, but it's probably one of the main reasons why we are like this today.
I absolutely agree! I love the 60s so much and back than, women were dressed very feminine and always looked very well groomed and had beautiful clothes on and had amazing figures. Nowadays that‘s all practically gone and girls dress more like man now and many don’t wear makeup anymore. Back than women wore makeup and it was expected. The world changed for the worse unfortunately…I wish I had a time machine and could travel back in time…
I grew up at the same time. The Mad Man show was excellent at depicting the 60s fashions and hair styles.
I don't miss it.
I like NOW much better. I'm not a typical older adult.
@@user-rb6qf4po9lBecoming???? About half of Americans are obese.
@@roselamoureDo you really miss the hardwire bras and girdles??? I don't. 😂
I was a kid back then, good memories.
Wonderful times , without hesitated , the best facions styles ever , long heard and mini skirts , love that one .....
Thanks for your effort
Cars and fashion was really classy in 60's 😎
I'm french woman who want 60's style clothes. I love tweed skirts and white boots 👍 I'm searching for dresses 💛
Having grown up in that era, I can say the images in the video often do match the correct time for the styles. For example, miniskirts (anything above the knee), and bright colors were not before 1966, and note, one cannot base a style seen in a movie or on television, since there was a usually year or two lag time. Another example are flare pants that men wore, (think the early 70's Brady's), outside of the sixties music scene, they were not availed in most stores until the early 70;s, unlike the Monkees or the Beatles who were wearing them in 1967. I could go on, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Best source for fashion ref are old year books!
Nobody would even know where to BUY a mini skirt in 1961 ! @Rovingdog628
Times when the school measured the skirt length with a ruler to be allowed into class. Such a non- problem considering the crazy times to come😨
They absolutely did!! I remember it well! 😂
Oh, to be young and thin. (I was 17 in 1960; the decade belonged to me).
I remember there were Mod. (wide belts) ; Collegian (penny loafers) and Hard/Rocker (pointed black leather heeled boots )
I love the MOD style!!!!
Graduated from HS 1969, remember these styles, muscle cars and free love.
Seventeen magazine was a big deal for us teenagers back then. Betsy Johnson sewing patterns were available to make baby doll dresses and peasant tops to go with our boot leg Levis or long skirts. I wore either suede boots or hiking boots and my leggings for cold weather were thermals with rosebuds that I wore under dresses too. Very cute. I had lace up 3/4 calf granny boots that were so cool back then for a flower child teenager from the Bay Area. I did get a flowered, velour hip hugger mini skirt for Christmas one year that I wore with tights and boots, but by February it was too warm in California to wear it.😆
I rsd s kid in the 1960s but i remembrt all of thus so well!!!! ☮️💟
I can’t believe I wore dresses that short. But I was young slim and cute then.
I’m sure you still are!
nope@@minty448
You will be again, we all will be, in the life after this life. It is real and it has nothing to do with believing any dogma or sacraments. It's just physics. We all have our face too close to the glass to see what is all around us. Live your life. Never fear death, it is just a transition, a step along the road to our future.
I'm 76, graduated from HS in 1965 from a small town in Westerrn Pa., and no body that I knew dressed like this. This was strictly NY and California.
Groovy times. I was born to late!
are you a Mod or a Rocker? Ringo: "I'm a Mocker".
I love the colors and fassion that people dressed in 1960's
my uncle said it was colder in 1960's. he was an outdoorsman and he said bevaers then were hairy as heck.
I love the psychedelic music, it put me in the groove and I think I got a contact high !
My friend Bunny danced at the whisky a go go back in the day🐰
Having been born in the 50s I loved all the clothes I wore in the 60s and 70s. And yes, no one was fat. We were all thin and fit.
One of the things that struck me as I watched this, is that American’s weren’t fat/obese back then like we are now.
Aloha, thank you for this terrific video. It brought back so many happy memories.
Mini skirts were shocking to the Church but the following all of a sudden Maxi ( Kaley Barns in our school) was Wow! This changes everything.
Love the 50s style of the 60s style of the 70s style as I’m a 70s baby ✌️✌️✌️✌️🇬🇧
Great background music.
Being born in July of 96 is fascinating to see what they were in those.years.
HeyJoey - I agree. It's fun seeing the real-life snapshots of people just living their lives back then, wearing what they wore.
Love the shifts.❤ If I put on a dress today....I am Miss America. No tats and in shape.
All natural women in these photos. No tattoo, no Botox. I love seeing how beautiful women were back then. I wish we could step back into time. The women were very beautiful.
Agree with you, their lips was beautiful... They didn't have lipfiller
Glad I was young back in he 50s and60s now just memories ❤❤❤❤
Ah, beautiful legs and not a tattoo or any cellulite in sight! I was very young then but definitely influenced by the fashion and music of the '60's.
Whatever they wear, they are beautiful❤
My mother used to rock very short mini skirt suits with gloves and the penultimate bee-hive hairdo. Sometimes I think they were more daring in their fashion than we were in the 70's and 80's😂
It was a fun time. However, no one anywhere wore those white go-go boots. They were in the magazines and movies but not in real life. Some people wore black boots. I traveled the country for a makeup company and never saw the white boots. And thanks for showing the plaids and the kilts. They were a big item. Makeup changed too. Lipstick went from red to nude. The emphasis was on the eyes. Pantyhose eventually made it into the mainstream. Also shoes changed from classic heels to chunky, lower heels. The shoes and pantyhose changed because of the miniskirts.
I’m noticing in the comments what wasn’t said. We wore the cutest bloomers ever. Some dresses came with a matching bloomer. I know it sounds strange but it was a matching piece.
Its nice to remember a time when women cared about their appearance. Unfortunately today obesity, green hair, tattoos, and black spandex is the uniform of choice.
every woman you see has green hair? fascinating, i dont see any. sounds like another whiny snowflake.
Hey Karl, the men are all such keepers, though. 🙄
1960’s also brought in a whole new wave of VD 100’s of new Strains all still actively passed today.
you need to up your medication
@@josephberrie9550 More than 30 different bacteria, viruses and parasites are known to be transmitted through sexual contact, including vaginal, anal and oral sex. Some STIs can also be transmitted from mother-to-child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. Eight pathogens are linked to the greatest incidence of STIs. Of these, 4 are currently curable: syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis. The other 4 are incurable viral infections: hepatitis B, herpes simplex virus (HSV), HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV). Quote World Health Organization
LOVE THIS!
It was the best time to be a gas station attendant, The shorter the dress, the cleaner the windows
And a truck driver too!
The 1940s fashion is much more beautiful in my opinion.
I agree. And looking at these styles, they really hold up well when you look at them today.
As a Boomer who was totally pulled into my parents world of 30s-40s movies I would tend to agree. Things were very tailored and formal, classy and elegant -- but they reflected their time. As a kid-- a boy-- growing up in the 60s I can tell you that these fashions were absolutely dazzling!!! They were of course tied into the social context of that era, so were more about freedom and liberation: thus the bright colors, pop art designs, showing the figure off and celebrating women's beauty and sexiness. Legs, legs, legs!! In the 40s the clothes were what was shown off and were a key to social status, but in the 60s it was the lady who was the feature and things were less formal and costly. Still, the clothes were aesthetically beautiful and designed to the hilt by the leading people. I guess all that is subjective, and I don't disagree that Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, etc. were and are style icons in those beautiful clothes, but Faye Dunaway, Grace Slick, Diana Ross, Liz Taylor, and my favorite, Claudia Cardinale, were equally captivating in those fashions for that era. Women of all times/decades look fabulous because--- they just are!!
We were beautiful, but didn't know it! Everyone wanted to look like Twiggy and if you were mover 100 lbs. you thought you were fat! It was a fun era, the music was great!
Nothing fake about those women.
This video does a good job of tracking the change in styles. The problem with discussing styles, music, etc by the "even" decades--50s, 60s, etc. is that the biggest cultural shifts have often occurred in MID-century, For example oldies rock and roll is dominant from 1954 to 1964. Another major change was from 1964 (the British invasion) to 1974. Cultural change does not follow the calendar!
When ever I see videos or pictures of the 50s 60s even the 70s I can’t help but notice how massively over weight people are today. We, that are old enough to remember that time, should be grateful that women could be comfortable and confident in themselves. Today the fashion of the 60s wouldn’t work today because so few women would fit into those dresses.
I went to a high school with 1300 students. I can only recall maybe a half dozen overweight people...if that.
too much oily food... and no physical activity
But, they'd squeeze their fat azziz in regardless.
@@johnreitz5676 there’s only a couple of overweight people in my entire high school it depends.
Right… 😢, thanks FDA
The 60s in the uk where so different fashion wise to the 50s , a lot more liberalism was being expressed all over society and including ladies fashion, people were emeging from the doldrums of Conservativism and expected norms to be more individual and free to do what they desired. The mini skirt sent shock waves throu the old regime and religious control freaks much to the approval of the male population. A great time to be alive and free with great music to revel in.
Better than today's clothes in several ways!
I have often said it: of all the trends of the '60's, I miss the mini-skirt the most.
Those are definitely still in style. I wear mini skirts paired with knee high boots all the time
Good on ya’@@AshtasticAcrobat
I was in Miami a few years ago...
Drove past a night club
Not one girl was as skinny as anyone in these pictures... Sad society
@@Rovingdog628 I was hoping to see anything without Oink meat :)
Obesity wasn't an issue back then.
I loved the crop tops!
Clothes were becoming a lot more comfortable and easier to wear in the late 1960’s.
After watching this it boggles my mine how we get baggy pants and mom jeans now.
...and tattoos....ugh!
Because fashion keeps moving in cycles. The 90's had a lot of baggy, oversized, loose fitting clothing. Then to the 2000's and 2010's, we had the mini skirts come back, skinny jeans, yoga pants, leggings as pants, bodycon dresses, lots of skin tight tops, almost everything popular was tight fitting. Now we've swung back in the other direction in the 2020's and oversized and baggy is popular again.
I'm 68. Not to nitpick, or maybe I am, but the women in the thumbnail appear to be wearing "hot pants." Those arrived on the scene about 1971, not earlier in the actual 1960s. I know because I wore them in 1971 - 1972 as a junior/senior in high school those years. Yes, I wore versions of them to school. There was much more tolerance of fashions back then, at least at my Midwest, suburban public school.
MINISKIRT A little history
The miniskirt was created by Lucien David LANGMAN, Master Tailor of the Jean Raymond house in 1959. Mary QUANT, the British woman, bought 2 miniskirts cut by Lucien David Langman at the Boutique des Arts in Saint Tropez and paraded them on a young model of 16 years TWIGGY in New York in 1966. The Miniskirt creations of Lucien David Langman and the aspiring model were a success in NEW YORK and launched Mary Quant to the forefront #jeanraymond #LucienLangman
I grew up, and went to high school in the 1960s, and I STILL don't know what to think of women's clothes of the era. Men's either, for that matter. Cartoonist Al Capp who drew the Li'l Abner comic strip, satirized Twiggy, with a character named "Icky."
I loved mini skirts.
Bow this is a groovy video man!
Enjoyed the video. Wondering where you might have sourced the music?
Reporter to ringo starr: "Are you a mod or a rocker?"
Ringo : "I'm a mocker."
At 7:35, a bird flies overhead and says “hey, a ready made nest for my future chicks. Cool!”
The good old days. Gone forever.
Fantastic video!! The clothes are great but it is also fun looking at the cars, decor, furniture, gadgets etc. that are part of the scenery. Who is the lady who pops up at 4:10? And--- what are the music selections during the video--- they are outstanding!! Would love to know what they are. Thanks!!
We didn't have stretchy material, those dresses and jeans had to fit and couldn't be too tight. But, yes, young people were a lot thinner then.
It's about freedom baby, yeah!
No tattoos, no fat women, simply amazing.
Oh, there were fatties both sexes, just not in the profusion that one sees today. The modern diet is so bad with too much processed foods and SUGAR. Lack of exercise today contributes to the obesity epidemic.
You can still see more of that if you visit Asia and Europe
Yeh I don’t understand the tattoo n body piercings culture of today. I don’t get the reason for vandalizing your skin and body permanently lol.
@@jasminek5557 I think it's more of a fetish. I am 57 and I don't have any tattoos or anything. My parent forbid it. My 3 sons don't have any either. It looks trashy.
@@jasminek5557cus that's what they chose do to with their bodies maybe? 😂
One thing you could say about us back then when it came to clothes , we were colorful
Hot pants didn't become a thing until the early 1970s.
Man and they looked great with no tattoos and slim ❤❤❤❤
Beautiful woman in the 50sand60s❤❤
Great times😊
No massive, obese young people in these videos. It's a shame what has happened in the USA.
I love the sound track on this video! It’s “surf noir “ like La Luz. Who is doing it?🤔
Some of the women look groovy expecting that lady 3:54
Note the hose on all the girls. Very nice.
The era had great fashion great hair.
Cool
Ah, the 60's and 70's where I grew up in. We didn't have pink and purple hair. She was not all tramp stamped up and with rings in her nose, eyes, ears, lips etc. She dressed like a real woman with miniskirts and no bra, with class. Nobody had an overweight problem. Nobody had a cell phone, computer or even a phone without a cord. There's so many good women out there today but you don't see them because they're normal people, and nobody talks about them.
Oh no! Pink hair! Piercings! The shame!
@@MattTee1975lmao 😂
Remember Mary Quant
5:13 Wow
Oddly enough this is what women in Afghanistan and Iran were wearing in the 60s too