Fashion in 1970-1979
With flowers in their head
, Jesus sandals on their feet, and a smile on their lips, the happy young
idealists of the 1960s walked into the century’s seventh decade. Their
dreamland seemed to have appeared: the future belonged to young people and to
their “love and peace” philosophy. The
youth trendy did indeed stay alive, but the young people who brought it into
being were getting older. Nature, at whose bosom they had sought fulfilment and
illumination, turned against them. The gentle hippies with their beards and
long hair aged quit quickly and it was not long that their motto “never trust
anyone over 30” appeared. The next wave of young people did not regard the delay
of their birth as a blessing. They suffered from unemployment, inflation, and
boredom, and in no time at all the simple fact of youth could no longer
automatically pledge idealism and optimism. The hippies high love of peace was
soon substituted by the belligerence, always intensified by tough drugs, of the
political activist. Terrorism became part of life. At the same time the Vietnam
War was approaching its better end, the winter of 1972/73 brought the oil
crisis and with it the debasement of the dollar.
FASHION:
Jumpsuits
Vivienne
Westwood
Disco
Platforms
Homemade
woollies
Lycra
Jogging
craze
FILMS:
starwars
grease
scooby doo
monty phyton
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