History Of Fashion - Episode 6: The Swinging '60s

In this episode, Vintage2Versace's John Knight explores the influence of youth culture and youth music on fashion in the 60s and also takes a look at Hollywood red carpet glamour. Please subscribe for a new episode every Saturday.
Film by MASON MELLINS for Vintage2Versace.

[@agatarek_pl]

if 60's and early 70's in the U.K. than BIBA and Barbara Hulanicki!!!!!!! It can't be forgotten!

[@dougieburger]

my problem is i can never find beautiful vintage pieces like these. The ones i find are always falling to bits or on the more frumpy side

[@arxsyn]

I have a piece that is modern and mass market: a shift Emerald green drop waist button down shirt dress that comes with a tie. I just feel lucky that casual looks from back then are easy to replicate. For example tent dresses and other simple straight cut shift dresses. Add some accessories, opaque hosiery, white shoes or Mary Janes.
Another alternative is to sew. The construction of many of these dresses appear rather simple

[@rosedewittbukater4203]

There´s a big difference between beginning 60s, mid-60s, and end of sixties! 3 different styles!

[@lilioshka]

I think that white dress must have been after -65

[@terencesommer6307]

It looks like no earlier than 1966.

[@annparks8268]

white leather dress later than '62 surely.......

[@suzannesadiiqa]

+ann parks I thought so too.........I worked and lived in Chelsea for a few years from 1962 and never saw anything like this around and believe me I was interested in all things fashion at the time.

[@mariasmith2198]

No. It looks very 60's.And I am nearly sure its not leather but plastic of some kind. Plastic clothing was big in the mod 60's.

[@jacquelynmiller4714]

No, mod styles like that dress were early 60s

[@tomemeornottomeme1864]

The white leather dress is post-JFK, as is much of the bright, streamline, geometric, colorful designs people associate with the 60's. After JFK's assassination in late 1963, there was an explosion - a total upheaval - in society, and by 1964, miniskirts were everywhere, with bright colors and short skirts. The white leather dress couldn't be any earlier than mid 1964.

[@arxsyn]

To Meme or Not To Meme The design of the brass buttons really tickled me because they remind me of my school girl days... The copper prongs of "duotang" folders. Is this deliberate? I understand there is a subset of "innocent" fashion with round Peter Pan collars and high necklines but short hemlines

[@andiemorgan961]

Since when was punk in the 60s?😶

[@69georgiepie]

Always. Punk started in the 60s.