What the '60s really looked like

[Ohiogal]

A whole buncha fun photos here.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/living/irpt-real-60s/index.html

I remember I had a faux leopard fur coat and matching "muff" and I thought I looked pretty groovy in it! Especially with my brown plastic framed glasses and braces and the ubiquitous bow in my hair! I was around 9 in this memory.

[livetohike]

1. I kept a pair of bell bottom jeans that I had patches from the

material scraps of dresses I made. Wish they still fit! One of my favorite dresses was green with purple polka dots the size of quarters.

[Ohiogal]

3. What a big deal bell bottomed jeans were!

I wanted to rip mine, but my mother said absolutely not. Said no daughter of hers was going to go around dressed in "radical chic"!

I also had a white muslin peasant dress that I loved, I was about 14. My older sister had a Paisley sheath dress with bell sleeves, which are making a comeback.

Love beads ... Incense ... Peace symbols ... Flower power ....

[Arkansas Granny]

2. There was a lot of difference between the early 60's and the late 60's.

The late 60's were bell bottomed jeans, halter tops (because you had burned your bra), incense, free love, long hair and beards on men, smoking weed, rock and roll, communes. . . .

As a young wife and mother of 2, I didn't participate in all of that, but, for the most part, it was a good time to be alive.

[underpants]

4. 👀

Marking to look at later

[LeftInTX]

5. What's with this little girl's hair?

No way would my mom do that with my hair! It was a constant fight just to let my bangs touch my eyebrows.

[csziggy]

6. Is that Sarah palin as a child? The hair looks the same.

[LeftInTX]

7. Haa Haa!!!

[malthaussen]

9. I only knew about 200 girls who looked like the young lady on the left...

... a look I have never stopped liking.

-- Mal

[malthaussen]

8. Which 60s, though?

The early part of the decade was not much different from the '50s. I have this theory that "decades" really run from around the midpoint of one to the middle of the next (with a little wriggle room). 1967 has a lot more in common with 1972 than it does 1962.

-- Mal

[Ron Obvious]

10. That would certainly apply to the seventies as well.

The late of seventies of Disco (spit!) and Punk was nothing like the early seventies which were indeed not much different from the '60s as we popularly perceive that decade.

[malthaussen]

11. Yep. It kinda annoys me that the popular perception of the 70s...

... doesn't recognize how much Disco was hated at the time. I've actually mellowed towards it a little over the years. It wasn't all bad. I have another theory that popular music alternates between "dance" music (be it swing, Disco, or the Twist), and "musician's music" (like be-bop and hard rock). Most of the soi-disant "classic" rock of the 70s was on FM, after all, and not always Top 40 material (although "Walk on the Wild Side" was the #1 record locally at my Prom in 1973).

-- Mal