The 1960's and 1970's include Beatnik, Mod and Hippie street fashion.
Anti-war movement and flower power brings the hippie look as youth on the California coast embrace looks from a number of eras and cultures. Long hair and denim jeans also define this trend. Once again music, is associated with fashion (Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg are friends).
An anti-materialism philosophy, poetry and literature (Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg), bring together the Greenwich Beat Generation. Serious and austere, the look includes eye wear, beret, and dark colors.
In Britain, Mary Quant opens a boutique on the Kings Road; the Bazaar. A desire to express sophistication is achieved with Modernism and minimal dress: the mini dress is created.
These fashion trends can be seen on the runway decades later. Long flowing and printed dresses, sandals, vests and patches; dark glasses, beret, tall boots and turtleneck; very short skirt, clean lines, and primary colors, can evoke recognition of these street fashions.
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