What do you recall about fashion in the early '60s.?

Question

If you went to high school in the early years of the 1960s do you remember about the fashion products for teenagers, or women?
I rolled my hair every night beginning the year I graduated from elementary
school. Rolled it weekends for church. Sometimes it was pin curls with bobby pins, sometimes I used brush rollers. They were hand me downs..pink , green, black. I went through my clothes every morning, even if I had decided on on something the night before, , to find the one that fit the day. By the time I got to school my dress was wrinkled from three to a seat. Can Cans were in freshman year. I wore one handed down from my sister. The fashion faded. By the time I arrived at school, the back was flattened. The bras that did not strstch were uncomfortable and rode up in the back/ They were really a nuisance. If there was any sort of padding, the cup part became hard and leaked crumbled foam. I tied the straps in knots to keep them from sliding. Thank God for having them. White Bobby Sox? Anyone? I wore them every day. Secret deoderant turned my clothes as yellow as could be under the arms, the bras and slips , that is. What about that cheap perfume at
Ben Franklin's ..Blue Waltz, and Evening in Paris? I saved my lunch money to get some. No. I never shoplifted one single thing. The EP was more expensive. It was less than 50 cents.. I think I had one bottle of each. Not at the same time. Nail polish was 17 cents. If I saved a nickel a week, I could get a bottle that lasted months. Icy Rose was my favorite color. I received 25 cents a day for lunch the first three years.The last year I received 35 cents..rich. (I also tithed on my lunch money.)
Do you remember those Nestles Capsules, the ones that cost less than a dollar? I saved and saved for a long time, to get some to make my hair darker, they were supposed to be temporary. I had naturally light blond hair and felt like
people did not like my hair . . The capsules made my hair pink. I tried purexing my hair to get it out. If my hair was cut, my Mom cut it. Do you remember thos little red boxes of
mascara? They were very small and had a little brush that you wet rubbed on the stuff and then on your eyelashes. Someone gave me one of those. It lasted forever. May sound like I wore a lot of makeup, but I did not.
Hose.. I .rarely had a pair, sometimes they were second hand. wore them until they were very full of runs. ...think the seamless was just going out. I do not remember panty hose then. Remember panty hose with garters, or garter belts? What I had lasted five or more years. I took care of my belongings.
In 1994 I had in my possession a car coat that I wore in high school in
1963. It was wearable yet. Car coats... ( I have a vest I bought in
1968 or 69. If I had my way I would have a lot of collectibles. I have not had that privilege..especially books. I am a sentimental person.)
Can you think of anything else that was collectible? Autograph books?
Can you think of more items for women from the .'60s
It was in where I lived for the guy to give his classring to his girlfriend and
"go steady." Usually the ring was too big. We wound tape around and around the bottom of the band to make it fit. I met a guy when I ws 14. He gave me his classring. I was visiting my sister. Before I came home, I asked if he wanted his classring back because I did not know when we would see each other again. I was afraid I would lose it. We wrote back and forth when we were not squabbling over nothing much. I never knew what we were squabbling about. Some of the teens wore the ring on a chain around their neck.
Eye glasses? The pointed cat eye glasses? I preferred brown frames. Seemed like Mom had to buy me two pairs to get one pair which I could wear.
Not of my doing.
Unless you think we were wealthy...We received some hand me downs , rarely, but some...and sometimes gifts (rare). Sometimes I received lunch money, sometimes I took a sandwich. I saved for a long time to get what I wanted. For my birthday one year I received a ballpoint pen.(Is that to be hyphenated?) I was very proud of it. ( For every error my classmates have on me I have one on them. )
Can you contribute to this? .

Answer 1

I think you've covered almost everything.

Those brush rollers brought back memories, along with the hair dryer that consisted of a vacuum cleaner in reverse. I'd put that plastic bag over my hair and turn it on, then sit there for an hour.

Answer 2

Mods and hippies would be the two prevailing fashions. And the 'in' fashion at the time too, miniskirts, etc. Style icons I'd say would be Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and The Beatles.

Answer 3

We wore dresses or skirts to school. I remember wearing matching angora sweaters and wool skirts in the mid 60's with Capezio flats of the same color as my outfit. We also wore our boyfriends letter sweater to football games and pep rallies. We wrapped our boyfriends class ring with angora thread and brushed it with a toothbrush to fluff it out. We wore very little makeup, light pink nail polish, and used large plastic rollers to curl our hair.



I don't remember anyone in high school that drank or used drugs. College was a totally different time at the end of the 60's. Much more relaxed dress, more experimenting with everything to fit in. The good girl imagine wasn't as important to us.

Answer 4

Ankle bracelets, loose makeup powder, Tangee lipstick, A-line dresses; overall people took pride, and looked elegant in the way they dressed. Jeans (aka "dungarees) were worn either on weekends only, or on a farm.

Answer 5

I remember scratchy very stiff petticoats and feeling very daring with my first above the knee dress!



I hated stockings and garter belts and was ecstatic when tights came in!



Oh and I remember my first pair of kitten heels and that awful mascara you mentioned!!!

Answer 6

The only difference is my jeans and 'T' shirts were a size smaller.

I just answered the headline,your question was too dammed long.

Answer 7

Short shorts, pedal pushers, can can slips, capezio shoes, stockings with a seam up the back, actually dressing up for church.

Answer 8

No jeans for girls. Had to buy men's jeans, then get in a bath of really hot water wearing them so they would shrink to fit.



Beulah

Answer 9

It's all merely a matter of personal preference. We have short hair and guys like it. And i prefer a person with short hair over a guy with long hair because long hair tends to make guys look as well girly.

Answer 10

Short hair is too mainstream, I love lOng hair in guys more, it looks sexy: 3 short hair can look nice however it looks really common

Answer 11

I still roll my hair and I'm still chastised for it. Believe me, I'm doing the public a favor.

Answer 12

I remember my skirts were so tight at the knees I had trouble going up the steps!!!

Answer 13

barefoot during the summer. t-shirts didn't have designs or color. but there were hand ten t shirts.

Answer 14

saddle shoes and the sixtys sucked big time GOD..