# 60s fashion trend questions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303 "2017-07-28T02:35:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303/1 "2017-07-28T02:35:27Z")
As I think I’ve established, I love '60s-mid 70s pop culture… 1. My question is, around what specific YEAR would you say earth-tones and the very drab brown/orange looks in clothes became popular? 2. Second, around what year would you say Hippie fashion became normalized or mainstream? 3. What year did the Beehive look go away? What year did the long, parted in the middle hair look (ala Marcia Brady) come in for young women versus bouiffant hair? 4. Around when did jeans replace slacks for (young) men? 5. Around what year did women begin wearing pants more than they wore dresses? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303/2 "2017-07-28T04:07:46Z")
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**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303/3 "2017-07-28T05:12:21Z")
I’m middle-aged, not quite old enough to answer definitively, but based on old memories and watching tons of films & TV from that period… 1. For the hip crowd, 1968. Look at what the Beatles & Rolling Stones & other hip groups were wearing that year. For mainstream culture more like 1971-72; look to Rhoda on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_. 2. Was gradual, somewhat slower in conservative areas like the South. I’d say the process was complete by 1973, by which time the term “hippie” was out of favor. 3. Ali MacGraw had this look in the 1970 blockbuster movie _Love Story_, the same year “That Girl” Marlo Thomas adopted the look on the TV show of the same name. I’d say it was standard from then on. 4. This is difficult, because there are cotton pants that don’t look exactly like jeans and it seems like these were popular from the mid-1960s onward - look at what Elvis Presley wore in his movies, for example - but blue jeans maybe not pervasive till around 1969? 5. Certainly by 1974 my teachers and my mom were wearing slacks almost exclusively, so this transition happened earlier. The mom on _The Partridge Family_ and style icons like Susan Saint James on _McMillan and Wife_ wore slacks starting in '69 and '71 respectively ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303/4 "2017-07-29T01:35:58Z")
For question number 1, in 1976 I bought a three piece suit, soft, lovely chambray (sort of a faux suede), with a burnt orange coat and slacks and a richly creamy tan vest. Could not possibly have been bought before or after that. I was a skinny 26 year old, and it kind of actually worked. The cuffs were wide but no bell bottom. God, 70s fashion sucked. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303/5 "2017-07-31T00:15:32Z")
> [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](#): > > For question number 1, in 1976 I bought a three piece suit, soft, lovely chambray (sort of a faux suede), with a burnt orange coat and slacks and a richly creamy tan vest. Could not possibly have been bought before or after that. I was a skinny 26 year old, and it kind of actually worked. The cuffs were wide but no bell bottom. God, 70s fashion sucked. Pics or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303/6 "2017-07-31T02:57:14Z")
> [@Reddy\_Mercury](#): > > As I think I’ve established, I love '60s-mid 70s pop culture… > > 1. My question is, around what specific YEAR would you say earth-tones and the very drab brown/orange looks in clothes became popular? I have a wool shirt & winter jacket from high school - 65-67 that meet that description. > [@](#): > > 1. Second, around what year would you say Hippie fashion became normalized or mainstream? What is normalized and what is hippie fashion? > [@](#): > > 1. What year did the Beehive look go away? What year did the long, parted in the middle hair look (ala Marcia Brady) come in for young women versus bouiffant hair? I recall them in high school but not college - 67-71 > [@](#): > > 1. Around when did jeans replace slacks for (young) men? For what? I wore jeans as a research biologist until 1980 when I became a contract programmer and started wearing suits. > [@](#): > > 1. Around what year did women begin wearing pants more than they wore dresses? When high schools allowed girls to wear pants. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60s-fashion-trend-questions/792303/7 "2017-07-31T12:32:19Z")
> [@Reddy\_Mercury](#): > > As I think I’ve established, I love '60s-mid 70s pop culture… > 3) What year did the Beehive look go away? What year did the long, parted in the middle hair look (ala Marcia Brady) come in for young women versus bouiffant hair? Judging from a couple of my teachers, the beehive was still going strong in 1987.