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The late 1960s and earlier 1970s saw the
flowering of a romantic or fantasy style of dress with the revival of earlier
fashions and the borrowing of clothes from other countries and cultures.
There was, for example, a liking for Victorian and
Edwardian-inspired long skirts, frilled blouses and laced boots and
original specimens of these clothes, found in antique markets and junk
shops, were also worn. |
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Long, loose, Indian, far Eastern and south American
garments and jewellery were adopted, first by the "hippy"
movement and later absorbed into the mainstream of fashion. |
| The influence of the far East was felt in other ways and in
the mid-to-late 1970s Japanese dress designers in Paris were making an impart
on high fashion, introducing features of the wrapped, layered and untailored
style of traditional oriental dress; but it was several years before
this ideas passed into common currency. |
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| The most original and dynamic contribution to stylistic development in the
1970s came paradoxically from the negative, anarchic "punk" movement
which was essentially subversive and anti-style. In the later 1970 a minority of
young people reacted violently to a conformist society which seemed to offer
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| nothing, by deliberately and perversely
cultivating the bizarre, the ugly and the shocking. hair was dyed and
sculpted into spiky, menacing forms, faces were painted and noses and ears
pierced with safety pins, black tattered clothes were punctuated with
metal studs and zips and |
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shackled with chains and straps. the intention was to
reject fashion and its conventions, though fashion itself responded by
absorbing and modifying many of its elements. the influence of the |
| Punk movement and "street fashion" has extended to
the early 1980s and its most significant result has probably been a
questioning of the conventional ideas of feminity and status in women's
clothes. |
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Another line of thought which affected fashion in the
late 1970s and 1980s has been an intense interest in physical fitness. not
only has this encouraged the design of new ranges of sportswear for men
and women but it has also changed the emphasis in dress design. |
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Unlike the 1959s when clothes imposed the shape of fashion
on a woman, garments have in recent years tended to take their line from
the wearer. Longer, looser, unstructured clothes, in the manner of
drapery, can be designed to reveal and enhance the natural shape and
contours of the human body - although to be most effective, the body need
to be slim and fit (without the artificial aid of structural underwear). |
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