60s Fashion

60s Fashion
Author: Michael Heatley
Publisher: Character-19
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2020-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN:

The miniskirt, the trouser suit (pantsuit), the bob hairstyle, eye makeup, the supermodel – so many fashion concepts we take for granted today owe their existence to the Sixties. It was an era when fashion advanced side-by-side with music and movies, breaking new ground as the world threw off the drab grayness of post-war life and put its gladrags on. Hemlines weren’t the only thing that was rising as the decade progressed. The interest of the mass media was piqued, and when Time magazine pinpointed the epicenter of the fashion revolution as Swinging London, all roads led to Carnaby Street. London-based models like The Shrimp, Twiggy, and Veruschka became overnight stars, blazing a trail for the supermodels of today and projecting the fashions of the time. Photographers and designers were now celebrities too, names like David Bailey, Patrick Lichfield, Mary Quant, and Ossie Clark making headlines as big as politicians and pop stars. This publication records the Sixties fashion revolution in words and most importantly, pictures, documenting the decade when haute couture and the high street met and married. What we wear and how we wear it has never been the same since.

60 Civil War-Era Fashion Patterns

60 Civil War-Era Fashion Patterns
Author: Kristina Seleshanko
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486461769

Assembled from vintage issues of Peterson's Magazine, a popular 19th-century "ladies" periodical, these patterns include dresses, pants, jackets, and other apparel for women and children. Historians, collectors of antiques, and costume designers will appreciate this original collection, which features suggestions for re-creating the garments with modern tools and techniques.

Everyday Fashions of the Sixties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs

Everyday Fashions of the Sixties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs
Author: JoAnne Olian
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0486134237

Scores of illustrations with their original captions specifying colors, sizes, prices. Items include lingerie and playclothes to bridal ensembles, Madras jackets, and vinyl slicker coats. Introduction. Over 300 black-and-white illustrations.

Fashion in the 1960s

Fashion in the 1960s
Author: Daniel Milford-Cottam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1784424099

Perhaps more so than any other decade, the sixties had the broadest impact on the twentieth-century Western world. Across society, culture and the arts, youth voices rose to prominence and had a significant influence on new trends. Mature polished elegance was replaced by young liveliness as the fashionable ideal. Although only the most daring young followers of fashion wore the tiny miniskirts and borderline-unwearable plastic and metal outfits publicised in the press, stylish and smart fashion was increasingly available to all, with an emphasis on self-expression. New style icons such as Twiggy combined girl-next-door looks with trendy, aspirational and accessible outfits, and popular culture heavily influenced mainstream fashion. This beautifully illustrated book offers a concise guide to changing styles across the decade.

Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s

Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s
Author: Kimberly Wilmot Voss
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030736245

This book documents the careers of newspaper fashion editors and details what the fashion sections included in the post-World War II years. The analysis covers social, political and economic aspects of fashion. It also addresses journalism ethics, fashion show reporting and the decline in fashion journalism editor positions.

Trickster Travels

Trickster Travels
Author: Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2007-03-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466829303

An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.

Sex, Sense and Nonsense

Sex, Sense and Nonsense
Author: Felicity Green
Publisher: Acc Art Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781851497737

Felicity Green brought a new, original voice and look to the fashion pages of the '60s' Daily Mirror. For the first time in newspaper history she created fashion pages designed to appeal to both sexes as the circulation soared to more than 5 million copies a day. Great pictures, great photographers, top designers, top models - Felicity made these Swinging '60s fashion stories FUN! bringing the glamor and style of glossy magazines to the Mirror. These award-winning pages broke the fashion mould and captured the stellar time when London fashion conquered the world. Under Felicity Green's by-line comes stories of the stars of the '60s - they're all talking in this original book: Mary Quant, Barbara Hulanicki, Vidal Sassoon, Twiggy, Terry O'Neill, and a sparkling foreword by Barbara Hulanicki, of Biba fame, tells the story of a fashion collaboration/friendship whose gingham dress made fashion history. The 'Big Names' from the '60s are all here in this fun, entertaining and informative book which tells it how it really was; revel in close-up and very personal recollections. Sex Sense and Nonsense is an amusing, revealing look at the '60s as you've never seen them before. "Felicity Green was as much responsible for putting the swing into the '60s as any of us including Mary Quant and me!" Vidal Sassoon "If it weren't for Felicity and our gingham frock, my life would have been quite different." Barbara Hulanicki "I plunged in to the London '60s scene and broke all the rules - for me fashion is not frivolous, it's part of being alive. Felicity at the Daily Mirror understood this - and understood me." Mary Quant "Felicity was the journalist who first put '60s fashions in newspapers. She recognised our scene and its potential to influence and change fashion and she put us all together, the models, the photographers with the clothes and hairstyles we all wanted to wear - and Felicity made it news." Terry O'Neill "The Daily Mirror fashion pages looked like Felicity had kidnapped the Vogue art editor." Shirley Conran

Radical Rags

Radical Rags
Author: Joel Lobenthal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1990
Genre: Design
ISBN:

Tells the story of the revolutionary--and voluptuary--fashions that accompanied, expressed, and broadcast the social, political, and cultural revolt of a turbulent decade.

Tomorrow's Heirlooms

Tomorrow's Heirlooms
Author: Trina Robbins
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780764303548

The interesting, sometimes chaotic decades of the 60s and 70s were reflected in the verve and variety of their fashions. Hundreds of cheerful dresses, jumpsuits, bellbottoms, hotpants, and disco clothes are illustrated with full color photos. Set in the context of the social issues of the era, the appreciation of both is enhanced.