# What Hippie Things Can You Remember?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 23, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989 "2004-03-23T21:36:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@sunrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunrise)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/1 "2004-03-23T21:36:35Z")
I’m too young to know about the Hippie days, but I’m putting a scrapbook together for my daughter (who acts like a hippie.) I wanted to use retro shapes and signs but the only thing I can come up with are:
love beads
peace symbols
flowers
What other symbols should I use?
The only colors I can think of are yellow, neon pink and greens.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/2 "2004-03-23T21:48:06Z")
Bare feet, denim, headbands, and rainbows.
Weird eyeglass shapes, lots of hair, and Haight-Ashbury.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/3 "2004-03-23T21:56:10Z")
> [@sunrise](#):
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> I’m too young to know about the Hippie days, but I’m putting a scrapbook together for my daughter (who acts like a hippie.) I wanted to use retro shapes and signs but the only thing I can come up with are:
You can try wandering around in [Hippyland](http://www.hippy.com/php/index.php)
From the site, here’s a collection of [psychedelic posteers.](http://www.hipmarket.com/posters/psychedelic.htm) (You may want to get a blacklight for these.)
Don’t forget the incense.
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### Author:  [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/4 "2004-03-23T22:23:21Z")
Tie dyes!
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### Author:  [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/5 "2004-03-23T22:58:32Z")
Granny dresses (and eye glasses), bell bottoms, halter tops, long straight hair. Boys whose fathers went ballistic because their hair was long. Animal skin vests (with the hair still on).
Also, same time period–white go-go boots and mini-skirts. Most of us moved back and forth between hippie garb and other styles.
Let’s see–moccasins, sandals, groovy, paisley, make love not war, hell no we won’t go!, clean clean clean for Gene, psychodelic posters, black lights, lava lamps, light shows. Hitch-hiking everywhere. Camping out on the beach listening to guitars, macrobiotic diets, communes, sitar music. And the music. And being half high for quite a while. Holding up burning matches at concerts. Trusting no one over 30. Timothy Leary.
Help! I’m dating myself. Probably more to come later.
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### Author:  [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/6 "2004-03-24T00:02:55Z")
The original smiley face 🙂
Bell Bottom pants
Platform shoes (eeegads! am I slipping to the 70’s here?)
Girls wearing no makeup, or worse yet, Blue eyeshadow
Long straight, kinda greasy hair
Giant, and I mean Giant afros (I had friends who’s afro’s were so big, they parted down the middle when the wind blew)
Flower Power
Kent State
Tie dyed clothes
I was so psyched about all this stuff as a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up enough to wear this stuff. By the time I did, it was all out of style. Now its back, and I’m too old to wear it. Darn.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/7 "2004-03-24T00:24:03Z")
Depends whether you mean "hippies"or “late-60s pop culture.” Two different animals. And I was at the big Be-In in Central Park in the spring of '67, so I’m the girl to know.
Actual hippies, as Eric Cartman will tell you, were dirty, fashion-free, free-love, pot-smokin’, umm, well, “bums” or “Communists,” depending on your definition.
By 1967, it had all been coopted by pop culture: painted-on eyelashes, micro-minis, macrame belts, surfer’s crosses, Twiggy–that ain’t “hippie.”
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### Author:  [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/8 "2004-03-24T01:00:40Z")
Weed…Phospherescent Color illuminated by a Black-light…incense
Zig-Zag Man (silohetted)… Madri Shirts & Belts…moccasins
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### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/9 "2004-03-24T01:09:54Z")
The colors in my parents’ kitchen (decorated by the house’s original owner in the 60’s) were avocado green, chocolate brown, mustard yellow, and rust orange. Those are the colors I most closely associate with 60’s decor.
Other 60’s things that come to mind:
Earth shoes/Birkenstocks
LSD
The dancing bears
The greatest guitar gods of all time in their prime (Hendrix, Townshend, Page, Clapton, I’m sure I’m forgetting someone really important)
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### Author:  [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/10 "2004-03-24T01:38:18Z")
[QUOTE=myrnajean]
Bell Bottom pants
Platform shoes (eeegads! am I slipping to the 70’s here?)
Girls wearing no makeup, or worse yet, Blue eyeshadow
Long straight, kinda greasy hair
[QUOTE]
And how is this different from the fashions today? 🙂
I am an older college student, and I see that the normal college student wears flared bottom pants - are they called bellbottoms? I am still wearing classic cut - straighter leg Levi’s, but I notice that only the older students wear such non-flared jeans. I also stand out by not wearing trendy platform shoes. I feel so out of it but I lived through the 70s once already!
I was a younger child in the 60s/70s, but I remember daisies everywhere. I didn’t have any older siblings, and my parents were mostly non-hippies, but I had granny glasses (octagon shaped frames), funky bellbottoms, longish tunic type shirts, macramé belts, stuff like that.
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### Author:  [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/11 "2004-03-24T02:10:10Z")
> [@Boscibo](#):
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> I am an older college student, and I see that the normal college student wears flared bottom pants…
[Rick angrily kicks the TV in]
RICK: [to Mike] DID YOU SEE THAT? DID YOU? THE VOICE OF YOUTH! THEY’RE STILL WEARING FLARED TROUSERS!!! WHY DON’T YOU TRY A BIT OF POETRY, YOU HIPPIES!!
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### Author:  [@3.885AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3.885AM)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/12 "2004-03-24T02:58:43Z")
Boone’s Farms Strawbery Hill wine!
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### Author:  [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/13 "2004-03-24T03:01:55Z")
A lot of the stuff I remember, has already been mentioned. I’ll just give you a description of the people across the street, since they were my first dose of culture shock, at the tender age of 4. Volkswagen beetle in the driveway, daisy wall paper and beaded curtains. Mixture of patchouli, incense, and maybe pot in the air. Lot’s of beads, on my friend’s parents and in doorways. Bean bag chairs and cushions in lieu of furniture. Braided hair and fringed, suede clothing with beadwork. Earthshoes and barefeet everywhere. I went home and told my mom, “Justin’s house doesn’t have furniture!” I wasn’t allowed to go over there after that. ☹
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/14 "2004-03-24T03:02:53Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#):
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> Earth shoes/Birkenstocks
> LSD
> The dancing bears
Earth shoes are early '70s.
Dancing bears – I never saw them before the '90s. Skull and roses also date back to early '70s – not sure what the '60s logo was – I didn’t see the Dead live for the first time till '72 or '73.
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/15 "2004-03-24T03:10:35Z")
lava lamps!
I remember it all!
I was 10 in 1968 but I was a Hippie.
Not only that, I was and still am a Yippie!
🆒
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/16 "2004-03-24T03:29:42Z")
petuli oil
far out, trippy, psychedelic, groovy, hip, decent, weed, the man, the establishment, peace and love, ban the bomb, Attica, Black Panthers, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Whole Earth Catalog
Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, CSN&Y, The Doors, Cream, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Ravi Shankar, Donovan
Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album
Stones: Let it Bleed, Beggars Banquet, Their Satanic Majesties Request
everything beaded and braided
kaleidoscopes
paper flowers
water beds
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/17 "2004-03-24T05:21:17Z")
Did anyone mention Peter Maxx Posters? Pre colored or ready to color.
This was local, kinda. The Velvet Turtle bus. It ran from San Francisco to Seattle. It had no seats. You brought a sleeping bag, or blankets, or someone shared. It was, I think, about $11
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### Author:  [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/18 "2004-03-24T05:31:20Z")
I remember the Volkswagen Microbus, LSD, Frank Zappa.
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### Author:  [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/19 "2004-03-24T09:24:25Z")
Free love, baby. 😉
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hippie-things-can-you-remember/235989/20 "2004-03-24T19:44:55Z")
I, too, thought that the question would be about “hippie culture”. While I was too young to experience it firsthand, I was exposed to a lot of the lingering after-effects of it in the late 70’s:
Food co-ops
Living next to a commune
Volkswagen Beetles
Woodstock (well, no, but I do have relatives who live there)
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