FADS AND FASHIONS OF THE 1960s

Toys - Fads - Topics - Terms

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Toys
Topics and terms
Barbie and Friends Beach parties, surfing, beach movies, bands, and lingo
Superballs
yo-yos skateboards
Inchworm Haight-Ashbury

James Bond 007 toys

The Mickey Mouse Club
Twister: the game psychedelic
Professor Wonderful's Wonder Lab

hippies, flower children, counterculture

Klackers, Click Clacks, Klappers, Klik Klaks Summer of Love
Legalized Marijuana Movement

coloring books for adults:

JFK Coloring Book,

Nikita Khrushchev Coloring Book,

Psychiatric Coloring Book

LSD/Marijuana/Pot "Turn on, tune out, drop out" Timothy Leary
Fads baby boomers
The Twist (dance craze) the women's movement --women's lib
tanning cream, tan-in-a-bottle Man-Tan, Rapid Tan, Positan, Tansation, Tanfastic, Tan-O-Rama Hell's Angels
drive-in theaters GI Joe lava lamps the introduction of the contraception pill
troll dolls slot cars tie-dye Sexual Freedom League
the frug, the watusi, the mashed potato, the pony, the swim, and the jerk (other dances)  
Equal Rights Amendment ERA
Topics and terms conciousness raising
The Beetles
The March on Washington
The Rolling Stones
"I Have a Dream"
Dave Clark Five mixed marriage
Grateful Dead "population bomb"
Jefferson Airplanes sit-in movement
"A Vast Wasteland" Watts
Blacks on Television (Bill Cosby - I Spy) white flight
Wide World of Sports "Burn, Baby, Burn!"

60 Minutes

Telstar and Early Bird Satellites
Laugh-In Polio vaccine
The Smothers Brothers the space program
The Ed Sullivan Show American Bandstand

Fashions

Designers Terms - Trends - Trendsetters
Pierre Cardin Patti Boyd
Mary Quant Jean Shrimpton
Ferdinando Sarmi Penelope Tree
Bill Blass wide and bright ties, leisure suits, Nehru jackets
Donald Brooks Sonny and Cher
Rudi Gernreich wildly eccentric tastes in fashion, grooming and music
Coco Chanel
Geoffrey Beene miniskirts, more revealing fashions
Jacques Tiffeau minidress, minicoat, minipants
Oscar de la Renta boots, go-go boots
Dominic bold contrasting colors
George Halley flower power (bright flowery prints)
Stan Herman pin-striped jumpsuits
Anne Klein headbands, earrings, boots, sandals, sunglasses, clunky wooden jewelry, hippie beads
Halston
Mr. Kenneth bell-bottom pants, bobcat vests
Ben Zukerman frilly shirts, poor boy tops
Oleg Cassine loose-flowing ethnic clothes
Andre Courreges second hand clothes - army/navy surplus
Jacqueline Kennedy - the "Jackie look" men wearing beads, giant sideburns, long hair
women - long straight hair
elegant, simple clothes wide belts, tie-dye,
Chanel suits pop art affected fashion
Oleg Cassini gowns unrestrained colors for both men and women
modified bouffant hairstyle men wore turtlenecks (formal and casual)
white gloves shirts striped or boldly colored with spread collars and French cuffs
a Halston pillbox hat shoes of soft leather with square toes
pumps the mod look
a single strand of pearls neon orange, acid green, hot pink
"Twiggy" - boyish figure, cropped hair The Mod Squad television show "hippie cops" influence
Carnaby Street - London - British flag as part of clothing Peter Max influence
hip hugger pants
doll-like makeup, frosted lipstick, false eyelashes, heavy eyeliner, cartoon-like lower lashes modern, hip, groovy = mod
more unisex clothing

Fads

1960s

American Cultural History:  1960s Fads & Fashions

Crazy Fads from the 60s
1960s Fads

The 1960s (Decade)-Discovering Collection through Pinpoint

Fashion

Fashion Designers

Grand Couturiers

The Costume Gallery: 1960s
Hair1960s

Hair in the 1960s

Beauty World

Costume History/ Hair
Bad Fads

1960s Fashion and Textile Links

Fashion in the 1960s: Overview-Discovering Collection through Pinpoint

Men's Fashions in the 1960s-Discovering Collection through Pinpoint

For more resources and links see also:

Pathfinders on Jaguar Library Web Site:

Famous People of the 1960s Pathfinder

The 1960s (Woodstock Festival) Pathfinder

The 1960s Presidential Election Pathfinder

The Civil Rights Movement Pathfinder

Vietnam War Pathfinder