Next came the hippie look, which was influenced by the hippies of California who wished to express themselves through antifashion. Music and fashion also went together a lot during the seventies, with the rise of disco and punk music. Pants became daily fashion for women in the late sixties, and blue jeans revolutionized women's fashion for years to come. .
In the eighties, several trends influenced fashion, such as physical fitness and music. Also, women's fashions moved closer to a male dominated style. When the nineties came, grunge and an exploration in clothing structure became a new fashion crave. Mostly, there was a separating of fashion trends.
Everybody wants to be cool, so fashions are recycled and revived. Changing fashions throughout history was just whatever was different. In the past, like during war times, fabric was restricted, and these were the kinds of factors that influenced fashion. Yet it seems women's fashion has always gone against what society likes. Were trends really that shocking, or was everything just a recycling of the old fashions? All trends in fashion have and always will be a revival of the past.
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Doc. #1.
Marion Dorn. "Design and Color Quorum."" American Fabrics. Winter 1948.
I have observed that the type of design that becomes so quickly dated is that which strives to be different, while that which is good lives on. We in America like to recognize familiar forms in design, and so fresh treatment of a rose will elicit more response than will an abstraction. .
This statement from designer Marion Dorn exemplifies true, timeless fashion. She is saying that those designs which are best loved and received are those that are familiar and simple. Any trend that is too different and abstract will quickly fade and be lost in the bin of unwanted fashions. .
Doc. #2.
Benita Feorey. "Baroque to Oriental: Pearls are Back."" Harper's Bazaar. April 1981.
To most of us, however, pearls were a reminder of the middle class we were all running from.