What were Australia's fashion like in 1960's?

Question

- what was fashion like?

- How have fashion changed from the past?

-How has fashion changed since the 1960's and how did it affect Australians

-Influences the have affected and brought cahnges in fashion

ALL AUSTRALIA ONLY PLEASE AND THANK YOU!

Answer 1

The ladies wore full skirt dresses with lots of petticoats  & very high heels and always wore gloves. Big bouffant hairstyles.  

Guys wore black watch tartan trousers, with red or black cardigan and very pointy toe patent leather shoes - people made an effort back then.

My mother wasnt allowed out of the house wearing shorts or pants. Girls were not as sexually active as they are today.

Answer 2

I was a teenager in the 60s and I can assure you I never wore full skirts and bouffant hair. I had neat A-line mini dresses, mini skirts with skinny knit tops with cut-in shoulders, seldom wore pants, but they were straight leg when I did. Shoes were low heeled with rounded toes, T-bars or Mary Janes. Hair was short, angle-cut, bobbed - see Vidal Sassoon - or long and straight. Hot pants weren't in till the 70s.

Answer 3

your probably wanting this for history right??

i did the exaccct same thing

google 1960s fashion

but the fashions changed alot since then.. back then girls never showed off their bodies except when bikinis and short skirts came out..

the infulences was a model that came out from america in a short skirt and no gloves..

plus the war ending..

affects are girls became more sexually active and the pill came out around then too because of it

just kinda google things its a pretty open subject alot of things can be said for changes and the affect

hope this helps =]

xx

Answer 4

I would LOVE to actually live 60s Australia.  I've often bought 60s dresses, jackets, etc from 2nd hand shops, etc and even though they look ordinary, once you put them on you feel and look fabulous!!  There was a definite "something" about the cut of the clothes, and amazing colours and textures of the fabrics that are still so appealing, AND the clothes were made to last... I haven't had to do a single repair to any of the "old" things in my cupboard.  The clothes back then were definitely made for women, and made to last, as opposed to women now making themselves to fit the crappy mass-produced uninspired clothes that need constant repair that are on the racks today.  I wasn't yet born in the 60s and am definitely no fashionista, but if I go to a race day, or special event it's 60s all the way!!

Answer 5

Why not ask this again in the fashion or Australia (Travel -> Australia) category? They might help you with your research. Good luck!

Answer 6

I'm sure you would just have to look at english fashions and australia would have been just behind them...because jean shrimpton went to the melbourne cup in a mini and australia was aghast at the time...but minis soon took off in australia...we follow the fashion trends like everywhere else...get some old womans weekly's, new ideas and old magazines like that...plenty around in the second hand book shops...

Answer 7

see syria fashion 2008 = australia fashion 1960