Post by Hippie Tribes on Oct 5, 2010 18:52:02 GMT -5
THREAD HEADS
"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus, Discourses, 3.1
Welcome to the THREAD HEAD BAG, otherwise known as the vintage clothing special interest group.
This is where you can post discussions and articles regarding fashions of the Sixties. Whether you are a seamstress or buy your fashions straight from the rack - the Salvation Army rack - you will find that during the Sixties clothes certainly made the man, and woman.
In Leonard Cohen's song "Suzanne", one of the lines is: "and she's wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters." The hippies really did go to Goodwill, the Salvation Army, and other thrift stores looking for some article of clothing or accoutrement's to help them express themselves. Top hats and dress-up stuff were groovy. Band jackets and military clothing were cool. The items didn't have to make sense, in fact if they DIDN'T make sense - so much the better.
Of course the Mod look couldn't really be accomplished through the Goodwill. Frilly Rogue shirts and striped elephant bells had to be made or purchased at a modern hip shop. However, the greaseball rockers that still hung on, could find old tee shirts and blue jeans anywhere. "Pegged" pant legs were "the look". They were the opposite of bell bottoms - with the bottom of the jeans taken in to a point where you had to wonder how they got their feet through them. Finished with hair grease and pointed shoes with heels with horseshoe cleats on the heals and taps on the bottom of the front. Ahhh, the sounds they made walking through the school halls!
Wide belts and wide watch bands, fringed vests and fringed jackets, beads, buttons, headbands, tie dyes, saris from India, Native American moccasins - whatever flipped your switch! Let's rediscover the uniqueness of that period of time.
"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus, Discourses, 3.1
Welcome to the THREAD HEAD BAG, otherwise known as the vintage clothing special interest group.
This is where you can post discussions and articles regarding fashions of the Sixties. Whether you are a seamstress or buy your fashions straight from the rack - the Salvation Army rack - you will find that during the Sixties clothes certainly made the man, and woman.
In Leonard Cohen's song "Suzanne", one of the lines is: "and she's wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters." The hippies really did go to Goodwill, the Salvation Army, and other thrift stores looking for some article of clothing or accoutrement's to help them express themselves. Top hats and dress-up stuff were groovy. Band jackets and military clothing were cool. The items didn't have to make sense, in fact if they DIDN'T make sense - so much the better.
Of course the Mod look couldn't really be accomplished through the Goodwill. Frilly Rogue shirts and striped elephant bells had to be made or purchased at a modern hip shop. However, the greaseball rockers that still hung on, could find old tee shirts and blue jeans anywhere. "Pegged" pant legs were "the look". They were the opposite of bell bottoms - with the bottom of the jeans taken in to a point where you had to wonder how they got their feet through them. Finished with hair grease and pointed shoes with heels with horseshoe cleats on the heals and taps on the bottom of the front. Ahhh, the sounds they made walking through the school halls!
Wide belts and wide watch bands, fringed vests and fringed jackets, beads, buttons, headbands, tie dyes, saris from India, Native American moccasins - whatever flipped your switch! Let's rediscover the uniqueness of that period of time.