The 1960s were a time when for the first time models became as famous as movie stars.
For example Twiggy, with her big eyes and small face or Jean Shrimpton or Emma Peel the woman in the TV-soap "Avengers" in her black costumes.

When the Pill got on the market, it made women feel free.
They could have sex without trouble and could decide for themselves the practices.They became self-confident and could wear sexy, provocative, colourful and short clothes and thus fashion had to change.

And then was the time of the Beatles.
Their Music was very unusual and frightened the grown-ups. Their hair-style (Pilzköpfe) became a fashion trend.

The Barbie Doll

At the end of the1950´s and the beginning of the 1960´s the Barbie came on the market. At first only in the US little girls loved to play with her and to dress her the way they would dress themselves in the future . The Barbie doll stayed a favourite toy for a very long time.

Clothes

For the new generation second hand clothes were the biggest fashion trend. They came in all lengths and colours and combinations. Everything had to be practical and fashionable and beautiful and attractive.

Woodstock

What began in 1969 as the free festival of art and music, would soon become the biggest event of the world. There were half a million people, most of all flower-power-kids and hippies with long hair as a symbol for a natural way.They wore long and coloured clothes.
And their characteristic accessories were:
-rings,
-long hair,
-folkloristic clothes,
-necklaces,
-beards(for men) and
-second hand clothes.

Words
colourful - bunt
doll - Puppe
to feel free - sich frei fühlen
fashion determinant - Mode bestimmend
fashionable, stylish - modisch
folkloristic clothes - Trachten
frightened - ängstlich
to frighten - beängstigen
lengths - Längen
moviestar - Filmstar
necklaces - Ketten
pill - Pille
precision work - Maßarbeit
thus - somit
trouble - Ärger
unimaginable - unvorstellbar
to wear - tragen

By Gülay Kocdemir and Nadine Persicke

Sources

Lehnert, Gertrud: Geschichte der Mode des 20. Jahrhunderts. Köln: Könemann, 2000.
Seeling, Charlotte: Mode - das Jahrhundert der Designer. Köln: Könemann, 1999.

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