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Griffin Daily News
Astronauts, Adolescents Set Fashion
Pace During The Soaring Sixties
(First of a Series.)
By HELEN HENNESSY
NEA Women's Editor
NEW YORK—(NEA)—
Whether a current fashion is
a calico look or a velvet
look, a hemline, a shape or
a topless swimsuit, it is al
ways a reflection of the tem
po of the era which gave it
birth.
The 1960 s have been
“breakaway” years. Man
broke away from his natural
habitat and went to the
moon. The youth of the na
tion, now half the population,
joined together to break
away from long-established
conventions.
Many thinking young peo
ple showed active resent
ment toward the world they
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inherited and parents didn’t
know whether to fight ’em or
join ’em.
The 1960 s will be remem
bered as the decade that put
the words “generation gap”
on every tongue. And space
travel and youth seeking its
own identity were responsi
ble for the clothes that made
the fashion hit parade.
Yet the decade started out
with a quiet elegance that
may well have continued
had upheaval not lurked in
the stage door. For the first
fashion influence of the ’6os
was Jacqueline Kennedy.
Her inauguration pillbox
hat was still selling in 1965.
Her Somali leopard coat
started a run on leopard.
Her mink sweater was the
inspiration for a raft of
sweaters in fur. But time
marched and fashion joined
the parade.
Alan Shepard was rocketed
into space in 1961. In 1964,
French couturier Andre
Courreges said, "I have put
fashion on the moon.” His
pants, the purity of line of
his futuristic architectural
little dresses, his white boots
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and helmets all had the look
of a rocket stewardess.
Shortly after the Courrege
showing an American fash
ion magazine offered page
went from one fashion extreme to another. What began with
a quiet elegance symbolized by Jackie Kennedy's
Inauguration pillbox ended on a do-your-own-fashion
thing (almost-anything) note, plus a
revolutionary new look for the male of the species.
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after page of gilded space
maidens in such tortuous
positions that the details of
the “moon fashions” were
hard to define. That issue
caused a well-known news
man to dub the fashion mags
“comic books for adults.’
But the influence remains
even as the ’6os end. The
helmet hat, the pants and
the boots are still with us.
Spacemen and kids are an
odd combo to be fashion
trend setters. And the kids
even outplayed the moon
men in that role.
Because of the young peo
ple we have had the mod
look, unisex, the mini, the
maxi, the no-bra look, the
see-through, the gypsy dress.
And each of these looks was
a by-product of social dis
content—a flaunting of rebel
lion against tradition.
The “mod” or London look
came early in the ’6os. A few
enterprising British design
ers—Mary Quant the troop
leader—f ois te d on young
Americans, already search
ing for any kind of garb that
would set them apart from
their elders, ghastly brief
garments that looked as
though they had been sewed
up by mother’s loving hands.
The kids went for them.
They became an identity for
their generation.
But mom, trying to
achieve a meeting of the
mind with her daughter,
slipped into the silly little
things, too. This soon killed
the “mod” look. The kids’
aim was to break away, not
to look alike.
Unisex was another mani
festation of the young—a
badge bought at first in the
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mattered not. Only young
from old. But designers took
over and ruined that one for
the youngsters, too. At S2OO
and S3OO an ensemb’e they
offered sophisticated ver
sions of the unisex theme.
And mom bought it and wore
it, still trying to breach the
generation gap.
The little disco dress that
could be bought in a boutique
for a few dollars was turned
out as “the little black slip
dress” at a whopping price.
Mom bought it and learned
to do the “monkey” and the
“banana,” and made the
kids’ scene. She was think-
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ing “young.”
The flower children of the
hippy movement wanted to
look different as a social
protest. But again, the flung
together hippy clothes were
the forerunner of today’s
gypsy look and at least to
some extent responsib’e for
the kind of designer think
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of costume rather than
clothes.
But their elders won’t let
them go it alone.
Still, as designer Vera
Maxwell said, “It’s got to
stop somewhere. How far
can mature people go?
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“I like girls to look like
girls,” she added. “But
women should realize that a
girlish look is simply garish
after 30.”
Perhaps the ’7os will bring
the realization that the gen
eration gap can’t be bridged
with a mother-daughter look.
The only fashion likely to
be helpful in closing the wide
abyss between the young
and their elders in these
frustrating days is a good,
durable thinking cap.
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