Summer of love and flower power

There are some fashion styles that have remained ever popular. The original Hippie/Bohemian style has danced its way through the decades starting in the late 60s and had a re-boot in the 9Os as Boho.


Flowing maxi dresses and tiered skirts, Indian style tunics and camisole tops. Originally made with cotton or linen in a range of designs including embroidery, breathable Broderie Anglaise as seen below. Cool, free is the essence of the style in plain white or ecru. Rich colour tie-dye hipster bell-bottoms and t-shirts were an alternative but as today white is an absolute favourite for summer, easy cool for the beach, daytime and festivals.


Free spirit and flower power, emphasised by long flowing natural hair adorned with  Indian silk scarves, or ornate floral or beaded headbands, most popular was making your own daisy-chain band or sticking single flowers in your hair.


To complete the Bohemian look dresses, skirts or jeans were draped  with earth-coloured low-slung belts made of rope, real leather or suede in all manner of design, buckles, beaded, metal  studded, woven with tassels. Strappy sandals or moccasins finished off the Hippie vibe then in the 90s Boho western boots were the footwear of choice.

Vintage Style. Hippie or Boho Fashion. Photos copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)

  
Flower Power. Photo copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)

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Fact Checking...

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FLOWER POWER was a political movement and slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the anti-war movement which was opposed to US involvement in the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 (Wikepedia)

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SUMMER OF LOVE - "The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park" (Wikepedia)

MUSIC

MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL facilitated the Summer of Love as large numbers of hippies travelled to California to hear favourite bands such as:

The Who, Grateful Dead, The Animals, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, The Byrds, and Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin.(Wikepedia)

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Article & Illustration © Pats Focus Fashion Notes. 
Please note this is my recollection of the decades, items from my wardrobe not a sponsored post

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