Fashions from the 1960s

C without the jacket looks nice.

Early 60s such as these dresses were god-awful, left-over 60s dreck. Mid- late 60s? Much more interesting.

^^^ sorry, leftover 50s dreck!

Prom dresses

Jean Shrimpton at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse, 1965

Around 1963, the release of the epic "Cleopatra" inspired Egyptian motif fashions and styles, like Barbra Streisand's Egyptian eyeliner look and this look on Jean Shrimpton.

And this look on Jane Siegel Sterling in "Mad Men":

A huge subject! From the prim and elegant fashions of the Kennedy era, to the wild colors and blocky cuts of the mid-decade, to the rise of the hippies!

I love the carefree fashion of the hippies. They just didn't give a fuck.

Ship 'n Shore!

February 15 1960 | Vogue

Trigère

Jean Shrimpton, Vogue, 1962

At the start of the '60s, the Bouvier sisters were all done up in smart Chanel suits, white hand gloves, pearls, and shellacked bouffant hair. By the end of the decade, they wore more relaxed styles: natural, longer, center-parted hair, simple turtleneck sweaters, bare hands, corduroy slacks, etc. Despite more lines on their faces, their late '60s stylings gave them a more youthful vibe.

No discussion of 1960s fashion would be complete without... [drum roll] … …

WHITE GO-GO BOOTS!!

They were THE accessory for a few years, an instantly recognizable emblem of an era. I was a child when they became THE accessory, and any girl at my grade school who had a pair became instantly one of the popular girls. I envied the girls and kept desperately hoping they'd make them for boys, but fortunately I didn't say that out loud. But yeah, they looked fabulous, they brightened up any old outfit, and I still like them. I wish they'd make a comeback, some year when bright colors are in.

Evening gowns

Until I googled "Dior fashion 1969", I had mercifully forgotten about the hideous synthetic pantsuits women wore at the end of the decade.

Share my pain!

Audrey Hepburn wearing Givenchy on the cover of Vogue 1963

[quote] Prom dresses

Or pageant dresses, depending on perspective

Penelope Tree

Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, 1963

Well, this is every trend from the late sixties piled into one!

Op art, loose shift dress, miniskirt, long straggly hair, tights, white boots, and too-pale lipstick. As such, it's kind of fabulous.

Tania Mallet in a Madame Paulette Stiffened Net Picture Hat, 1963

Jean Shrimpton wearing a hat by Madame Paulette in 1963

The humble shift dress (E in OP's link and what Shrimpton is wearing at the race course) is the classic, wearable today. Works in a ton of fabrics, dress up or down, the only change is the hem length.

Always loved that Elizabeth Montgomery got to wear some wonderful dresses/outfits in Bewitched.

Early in series as a young 1960's newly married wife then mother Sam looked every bit the suburban Conn. matron.

R25, As a young gayling of the '70s-'80s, I would watch Bewitched reruns, and I thought Samantha Stevens was the most beautiful and glamorous woman on television, with her blonde flip or bottom curls, and her '60s miniskirts and shirtwaist dresses. And I loved when cousin Serena showed up in her mod fashions. Then the '70s fashions started creeping in and Samantha was looking less glamorous with the natural look makeup and hair, and ugly clothes and polyester pants ensembles. Disappointing. It was the same way with Carol Brady. From '60s fab to '70s drab.

I like the late 60s dresses the girls in this video are wearing. This could become trendy again, unlike the stuffy early 60s fashions.

What’s the premise of that video, R27? Models frantically running around changing their clothes in front of a man? That’s weird.

I love the street fashions and hippies fashions of the late sixties, so inventive and colorful! The looks of that era must have been so fun to wear, and always comfortable!

Of course when your mom tried to look cool by the wearing the paisley, psychedelic, or "flower power" prints of the era, the effect was not actually cool.

R28, Yes, that's the gist of it. And Bobby's got a big grin on his face while the girls run around in their bra and panties. Creepy. Bobby Troup's wife, Julie London, also recorded "Girl Chat," and like every song she sings, she makes it sound seductive.

Dior does psychedelia, 1968.

Honestly, I think the late sixties were a Lost Era for the couture houses, all the interesting fashion was at street level and they hardly knew what to do with themselves.

Fashion got more interesting once The Beatles arrived. They changed everything.

I love everything by Pucci.

Marilyn Monroe was laid away in her crypt wearing a "chartreuse Pucci dress." Ugh.

Pucci-designed stewardess uniforms for Braniff Airlines.

R35, It was this one. A very tasteful solid chartreuse Pucci. Marilyn had lost a considerable amount of weight in time for '60s fashions.

R37 Phew. I was imagining her in a patterned chartreuse Pucci number and it was going to give me nightmares.

R38, well, there is this number.

I absolutely loved Mod style and pretty much anything Marlo Thomas wore on That Girl.

Did not like hippie fashions at all.

My favourite example of 1960s fashion, very much on par with the tastes of the 1950s. Nolan Miller made this dress for Tina to wear in the pilot, and in an interview said since he was given such a limited budget, he had to leave the bottom of the dress plain instead of taking the bugle beads all the way down, as he would have preferred. I like it better as it is, and think further beading would have taken from its impact. Nolan was a very talented designer, but [italic]Dynasty[/italic] showed us what happens when a designer is given too much free reign.

Sharon Tate at her wedding day in London (20th January 1968)

D and J aren't bad OP, they're not too dated.

Sharing Tate was so beautiful R42, Polanski looks like the creepy lovechild of Hermie from Rudolph and the Keebler Elf.

Sharing not sharing, lol. -R44

R41, I still don't understand why Ginger packed so many gorgeous gowns for a three hour tour. Lol. And who on that island style her hair?

Sharon! Fuck!

Julie Christie at the 1967 Oscars. She showed up to present best actor in one of her trademark mini skirts looking beautiful as always.

Martha Stewart

Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski both looked ridiculous on their wedding day. It's a shame; Sharon Tate was so beautiful but she was all done up 60s mod and it was not flattering. It was awful; a mini dress with a high neckline that looked like a turtleneck, those leg o mutton sleeves...yech! Her hair looked awful too; she looked like she was wearing a fall and it had flowers sprinkled in it. or facsimiles of flowers (daisies?). Flowers in the hair always look ridiculous, unless you're Billie Holiday. Even Roman Polanski knew how dumb they looked. He said in his memoir:

"Sharon wore a cream colored taffeta mini-dress, and I sported an olive green Edwardian jacket, a tribute to some hard selling by Jack Vernon, a Hollywood boutique owner. We were a grotesque sight. I'm struck by the oddness of everyone's clothes at this, the zenith of the "rich hippie" era."

"I still don't understand why Ginger packed so many gorgeous gowns for a three hour tour. Lol. "

I always thought that Ginger was having an affair with Mr. Howell, and was planning to toss Mrs. Howell overboard when they were far from land. She was quite sure that Mr. Howell wouldn't mind that she'd spared him the trouble of a divorce, and that he couldn't possibly cope without a new wife.

What the hell else were a movie actress and two rich people doing on a rickety little boat?

Hong Kong Street Fashion

I notice how the camera man went from filming the general public at the start of the short clip below to focusing on the legs of young women near the end of the clip.

Nancy Kwan's wedding dress

The Vidal Sassoon haircut

Balenciaga, 1968.

Surely someone here knows what a lady is supposed to do with her arms while wearing this thing?

THIS thing!

R25-Except that Bewitched was set in New York NOT Connecticut.

R25

Turn in your gay card right now! You are shunned!

Mr. and Mrs. Darrin Stephens lived at 1164 Morning Glory Circle, Westport Conn.

Darrin Stephens like scores of other suburban husbands post WWII commuted into city for work (we assume McMann and Tate offices were in NYC), but no, the Stephens didn't live in NYC.

Audrey Hepburn in the film, "How To Steal A Million" (1966)

Balenciaga, 1968. What the fucking fuck.

Envelope dress by Balenciaga.

Mary Tyler Moore in "The Dick Van Dyke Show"

Hamburg, 1961 - Couturier Heinz Schulze-Varell with models

Lissy Schaper, Photo by F.C.Gundlach, Berlin, 1961

Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 in "Get Smart"

US Vogue, 1960

I am very surprised not to see Brigitte Bardot when she literally revolutionized fashion and hairstyle which everyone will copy, including many styles that I saw above.

Jean Shrimpton

Jean Shrimpton on the cover of Vogue 1962

It's Miss Coco Peru!

R67 Totally true. She was the most important fashion icon and influencer and still inspires designers today, she was called the most beautiful woman in the world, but she's french and on this website anti-french are numbers! Yet talking about fashion without mentioning the French is unrealistic and stupid, Bardot was a perfect natural beauty, a goddess.

R67 Totally true. She was the most important fashion icon and influencer and still inspires designers today, she was called the most beautiful woman in the world, but she's french and on this website anti-french are numbers! Yet talking about fashion without mentioning the French is unrealistic and stupid, Bardot was a perfect natural beauty, a goddess.

R67 Totally true. She was the most important fashion icon and influencer and still inspires designers today, she was called the most beautiful woman in the world, but she's french and on this website anti-french are numbers! Yet talking about fashion without mentioning the French is unrealistic and stupid, Bardot was a perfect natural beauty, a goddess.

Sixties supermodel Verushka, apparently wearing a burrito costume for Halloween.

^^ Sorry don't know what happened

Jean Shrimpton

15th October 1969 - UK Vogue

Arabella Churchill the granddaughter of Winston Churchill

Catherine Deneuve

R71 Ikr? she was gorgeous when she was young. Also, here's an impressive french brands list that i remember (there's certainly more):

Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, Balmain, Paco Rabanne, Hermès, Louis Vuiton, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Pierre Cardin, Courrège, Cartier, Louboutin, Jean Patou, Lanvin, Lancome, L'oréal, Chantal Thomas, Sonia Rykiel, Rochas, Azzedine Alaia, Ungaro, Isabelle Marrant, Chloé, Lacoste and even adidas was originally french if i'm not wrong?

Anyway French people are not just mere participants, they made history whether some people like it or not on DL

Grace Coddington

Are gays all secretly fraus? More men’s fashion please. Some of us don’t intend to wear any of these.

Grace Coddington

Beautiful. Did Coddington become a vogue editor.

Here is the Montgomery Ward's Teen Jr. Collection for 1965. Those sizes seem awfully big for teen girls.

Men's fashion

Menswear

The Nehru jacket

I have a soft spot for some of the Carnaby Street fashions. I know, some would say the soft spot is in my head.

That’s not a Nehru jacket r88. This is.

Duh, I think you’re right, R90.

R84 Actually, she's the creative director at Vogue magazine.

Models from the 1960's seem to be more career-oriented and more careful with the management of their money than models from the 1950's. Jean Shrimpton and her husband own the Abbey Hotel in Penzance, now managed by her son and his family.

The following are more pictures of Grace Coddington.

Another photo of former Bond girl/model, Tania Mallet

Diane Baker in "Marnie" (1964)

Tippi Hedren in "The Birds" (1963)

Grace Coddington in a Vidal Sassoon haircut

Jean Shrimpton and her boyfriend, Terence Stamp

Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp in 1965

Power couple, Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp

Jean Shrimpton

Another photo of the power couple, Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp

Another picture of Terence Stamp and Jean Shrimpton

[quote]R18 Or pageant dresses, depending on perspective

Pageant dresses? I’ll give ya PAGEANT DRESSES!

It’s a nice look for the young and slim. It’s not for the middle aged spread. Nothing ever is in fashion is it?

[quote]R104 It’s a nice look for the young and slim. It’s not for the middle aged spread. [bold]Nothing ever is in fashion, is it?[/bold]

How dare you.

Michael Caine 1965, photographed by David Bailey

Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda in "Tall Story", 1960

R107 That looks more 1950s than 60s.

Vogue (1960) - Piazza di Spagna, Rome, photographed by Klein William

Rome, Piazza di Spagna

Jean Shrimpton, photographed by David Bailey

Young Martha Stewart in college

Bob Dylan and family

Michael Caine

Simone in a dress by Fabiani, photo by William Klein, Rome

Anita Ekberg in "La Dolce Vita"

Sixties fashions were so fun and interesting. It really was a classic style, even if it does look kind of kooky by today's standards.

R37 Marilyn was buried in that chartreuse Pucci number.

Early 60s Fashion

MM actually owned that Pucci dress in a few colors in multiples. One assumes as with rest of her belongings the rest were scattered to four corners of earth after MM's death. That or the Strasberg family sold them off as with other MM possessions.

On subject of MM's hair and wigs, she was buried in wig from her last film sent over by Fox.

Monroe’s personal possessions were left to acting teacher Lee Strasberg, and eventually reverted to his widow, Anna. She auctioned many items in 1999, bringing in 13 million.

Coco Peru stole her hairstyle from "H".

R58- The episode where Aunt Clara conjures up QUEEN VICTORIA. The queen says- Where are we?- Aunt Clara says- You're in New York your majesty. The episode aired March 9, 1967.

Darren and Samantha's cars in their driveway clearly had New York license plates- which in 1966/67 were blue background with yellow letters/numbers.

R122

From your link:

"In her will, Monroe stated that she wanted her personal effects and clothing to go to friends and colleagues. But in 1999, Anna Strasberg commissioned Christie's to auction off many of those items, including the gown she wore to President John F. Kennedy's birthday party."

and:

"The gown went for more than $1 million and the baby grand piano that Monroe cherished, because it originally belonged to her mother, was sold to Mariah Carey for more than $600,000.

Several years and a variety of lawsuits later, Strasberg sold what remained of the Monroe estate to a new company, Authentic Brands Group, or ABG, for an estimated $20 to $30 million. Strasberg remains a minority partner in the deal."

In death as in life MM was fucked over yet again. Contrary to popular myth MM did have family living (including her mother) at time of her death. Then there were close friends ( who were also largely kept away from her funeral and burial), hence her final instructions regarding posessons. But the Strasberg family not content with their share took even more. That auction was a disgrace as is fact MM's "Happy Birthday JFK gown" isn't in the Smithsonian.

Can browse that Christie's catalog here:

How some of it went down;

Finally

AT THE SAME TIME, Monroe had highly paid lawyers at her disposal prior to her death. She could have made better provisions for friends and family in it, had she taken the time.

I love MM. But honey, gurl was a mess.

MM died virtually stone broke; her staff hadn't been paid in several months IIRC. Final will and testement was draw up after her divorce from Arthur Miller and was pretty good for what it was. MM nor her legal representatives who drew up the document foresaw Lee Strasberg's second wife gaining full control of things after the man died. In short they failed to place any sort of restrictions and or clear directions upon portion of MM's estate that went to Lee Strasberg.

The Birds (1963)

North by North West, though released in 1959 shows how fashions for both men and women were beginning to change.

Eva Marie Saint is so fuckin’ boring in that film. Just about anyone else would have been better.

TV star Robert Culp and actress France Nuyen at their wedding in 1967

Nina Ricci wedding dress 1960

Ooh, R134, I HATE that dress!

It looks like a t-shirt above, and a giant starfish stuck to her skirt below. With white gloves.

Marnie (1964)

Actress France Nuyen's first wedding in 1963

Marilyn said in her will that she wanted her possessions to be divided among her friends, but Lee Strasberg got a hold of them. I guess she thought he'd distribute them. He didn't. The Strasbergs, both Lee and Paul, basically used her for everything they could get out of her. Marilyn, incredibly needy and seemingly clueless about their true intentions towards her, must have been an easy mark. After Lee Strasberg died her property ended up with his second wife, who made a bundle selling them off. How sickening.

It's odd that MM was interred in that green Pucci dress. Green was not her color. She generally favored the color white. I heard somewhere that her half sister Bernice thought she should have been buried in something blue or white but that she was overruled by the witchy housekeeper Eunice Murray. But that seems odd; what the hell would Eunice Murray have to do with what Marilyn Monroe wore to her final rest? So who chose that dress? Joe Dimaggio? I doubt that; he wouldn't have known shit about dresses. I wonder how she ended up being laid away in that green dress. Maybe her weird psychiatrist chose it. He was so possessive of her; I can see him wanting to choose her final outfit.

Marilyn, towards the end of her life, was pressuring her lawyer to draw up a new will, but he kept putting if off, believing she was not "of sound mind." Sounds to me like she was of sound mind if she wanted to change that silly will.

Marilyn didn't have much in the way of possessions. She didn't have a lot of very expensive things; she wasn't a material girl. But people spent astronomical amounts of money for the things she had. Imagine spending thousands of dollars for old, junky makeup accoutrements. Idiots.

Nina Ricci 1963

Bill Cosby looks pretty stylish, too, in that wedding photo at r133

R140

Nails it!

Aside from that famous JFK happy birthday dress and perhaps a few costumes nothing in MM's wardrobe at time of her death seems worth vast sums people pay. Then there's the rest of it; $500k for a hair brush? Gimme a break.

R138

How MM came to be buried in that green Pucci dress is explained in link.

Long story short, Berenice Miracle and Eunice went to MM's house to choose what she would be laid out in; Inez Murray (exutrix of estate) had called in Eunice so she could show herself and Berenice where everything was located. The three women were accompained by the mortician who would take chosen items back to funeral home to dress MM.

Ms. Miracle went searching for a blue dress claiming it was MM's favorite color. Eunice told her there weren't any such garments, so Ms. Nelson asked the maid what was MM's favorite dress; she went over and pulled the green Pucci and placed it on the bed. The three women after examining the garment felt it was fine with Berenice saying "this will do" or words to that affect.

I still say that Marilyn would have looked a lot better in white or blue than green. That green did nothing for her.

It made her look a little pallid

R114

Maybe in life that green dress didn't do much for MM; but after she died it took some effort to make her remains appear beautiful as they had been in life.

Her old friend make-up artist Allan ‘Whitey’ Snyder worked his magic but had to be fortified with booze (from a flask MM had given him), and through tears.

MM died in her sleep face down; by time she was found and everything done at the crime scene, then body moved her face was covered in purple blotches. Then came horrors of the autopsy which followed.

Model Simone D'Aillencourt in front of the Washington Square Arch

Nina Ricci Patent Leather "Bow" Slingback Pumps

Mod for masses -- love the asymmetrical hemline and shorts of this cocktail dress.

R146, did MM have an open casket?

"did MM have an open casket?"

The casket at one point was opened for viewing. The daughter of her psychiatrist said that when the lid was opened "a shock of yellow hair popped out. I couldn't bear to look." Joe Dimaggio, awash in grief, kissed her for the last time and told her "I love you. I love you." Except for Johnny Hyde he was the only man she was involved with who truly loved her.

Supposedly she looked "good" in the casket, but how good could she have looked? It took a lot of makeup to cover the blotchy skin. There was swelling in the neck and although attempts were made to remedy that a scarf was around her neck to cover it up. Her breasts were gone due to the autopsy so stuffing was used to make artificial boobs. I think she probably looked very artificial.

R151

For all that out pouring of grief Joe DiMaggio had an odd way of showing his love for MM while she lived; during their marriage he routinely brutally beat her including at one point breaking a thumb.

Arthur Miller loved MM in his own fashion; he just wasn't equipped to be "Mr. Marilyn Monroe" and all that went with being married to the most desired woman in world at the time. To be fair MM wasn't exactly a saint during their marriage (she had an affair with Yves Montand), then there were the pills and booze. In short MM was a handful, but unlike Joe DiMaggio AM never laid a hand on MM, he just left the scene.

AM kept for years after her death (and perhaps until his own) a new bicycle he bought for MM at his home in Conn (that was supposed to be his and MM's as a married couple), and treasured her memory. He also wrote a series of essays beginning on MM's funeral day that poured out his heart in a way he otherwise couldn't.

MM came with tons of emotional baggage; sexually abused as a young girl, then passed around Hollywood casting couches and beds like a lumber camp toy. AM wanted MM to give up Hollywood because he blamed it and those from that place/industry for harming his wife. What AM couldn't understand then was that MM needed Hollywood; she had finally found a place where she belonged; and her fans or whatever gave MM the love and attention she desperately wanted/needed thanks to her messed up childhood.

Joe DiMaggio gets most press as the "caring" ex-husband perhaps for various reasons including that famous standing order of roses delivered twice per week to MM's grave. This while AM is ragged on for not even attending his ex-wife's funeral (he had very legitimate reasons).

Social distancing, even then, r147.

"Joe DiMaggio gets most press as the "caring" ex-husband perhaps for various reasons including that famous standing order of roses delivered twice per week to MM's grave. This while AM is ragged on for not even attending his ex-wife's funeral (he had very legitimate reasons)."

Joe DiMaggio was there for her until the end, until the VERY end. I think Miller just wanted her as a trophy wife. In an biography of Miller it stated that when he was informed of Monroe's death, or asked for comment on her death (I think it was her publicist that spoke to him, although I'm not sure) he said "it's your problem, not mine." The publicist or whoever called him "a shit." He certainly was.

[quote]R154 Joe DiMaggio was there for her until the end, until the VERY end. I think Miller just wanted her as a trophy wife.

Mr. DiMaggio never had to live with what her addictions became.

It’s hard to have any kind of stable relationship with someone who’s essentially a junkie. Miller eventually, understandably, had to bail.

I think the green dress she was buried in is great. It mirrored, much better than something all tight and boned, the free and natural way she felt about her body, and sexuality.

Simple, clinging silk.... you can’t go wrong.

That image of Monroe at R156 is NOT an actual photo of her in death. Some people thought it was, but it was just a sculpture. I doubt she looked that good. I think the Pucci dress she wore would have been more flattering if it had been blue or white. The dress itself wasn't the problem, that icky shade of green was.

“Difficult colour, green… very tricky”

French Elle, 1969 - Boho Hippie

Caftans

Why are gay men so into female fashion?

Well here's a huge psychedelic cloak over a huge psychedelic caftan! And it's Pucci!

I love the brilliant prints of the late sixties, and I hate that limp green rag they buried Marilyn in. It did nothing for her coloring or her figure.

Cute minidress

Lovely spring frock

I'm reminded of the clothing of Sharon Tate, who was considered such a sixties fashion icon. I saw some film clip of her sister taking her clothes out of a trunk where they'd been stored. Her clothing seemed to consist of almost nothing but barely there mini dresses in thin fabrics. She would have looked so much better in more fashionable clothing than dumb hippie garb.

Priscilla Presley minus the John Waters beehive

Kurta tunics

Sexy teacher 1969

Real world 1969 fashion

Mad about plaid

That’s the unremorseful Susan Dey on the far left in r167 and r170.

Cunt!

R171, the unremorseful Susan Dey with Susan Blakely and Shelley Hack at R170.

June 1967 - UK Vogue

January 1967 - UK Vogue

[quote]The unremorseful Susan Dey with Susan Blakely and Shelley Hack at [R170].

Susan Blakley was a big deal as a model. I always thought she looked kind of wishywashy.

I'm trying to figure out what the hell is up with this Pucci outfit from 1968 or so, and its model.

Why does she have no legs? Why does she have no forehead? Is that pointy bit boned, or is it actually glued to her sternum?

Burda sewing pattern, 1966

Okay, not 1960s. But I was googling vintage patterns and saw THIS.

When only a giant scrotum emblazoned on your dainty hostess apron will do!

R175, Susan Blakely was all right, but next to Faye Dunaway she looked like an Iowa high school homecoming queen.

As I said on another thread, not even "Mad Men" was willing to bring back the white lipstick of the late 1960s!

It was the height of glamour there for a while, the correct makeup to go under a huge bouffant. Probably the worst makeup trend of the 20th century.

God, those huge fake eyelashes looked awful. But that was prevalent in other eras, too. What the hell is so attractive about those stupid false eyelashes?

R80) Adidas is German.

'60s Fashion Icon

Zandra Rhodes

Mod fashions

Very late 60s: mini dress with maxi vest (clip from 1970 Eurovision.)

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