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1960's Fashion and Lifestyle

Fashions of the 1960's

Long hair for both genders, and more facial hair for men than was common at the time. Many white people associated with the American Civil Rights Movement and the 1960s counterculture, especially those with curly or "nappy" hair, wore their hair in afros in earnest imitation of African-Americans.

Brightly colored clothing; unusual styles, such as bell-bottom pants, tie-dyed garments, dashikis, peasant blouses; and non-Western inspired clothing with Native American, African and Latin American motifs. Much of hippie clothing was self-made in protest of Western consumer culture. Head scarves, headbands, long beaded necklaces (for both men and women), and sandals were also fashionable.

The VW Bus was known as a counterculture/hippie symbol, and many buses were repainted with graphics and/or custom paint jobs—these were predecessors to the modern-day art car. A peace symbol often replaced the Volkswagen logo. Because of its low cost, the bus was revered as a utilitarian vehicle.

1960's Lifestyle

• Performing music casually, often with guitars, in private homes and outdoors in parks and music festivals.

• There was a preference for psychedelic rock such as Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and Jefferson Airplane; blues such as Janis Joplin, traditional Eastern music, particularly from India, (Ravi Shankar), rock music with eastern influences (The Beatles), soulful funk like Sly & The Family Stone, jam bands like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band, and folk music like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Neo-Hippies often participate in the bluegrass and/or folk music scene.

•  Interracial dating and marriage, rejection of anti-miscegenation laws.

• Free love, including open relationships and most consensual forms of sexual expression, except sex with children. Traditional legal constructs and religious teachings that prohibited non-procreative sex outside the bounds of marriage were widely flouted--premarital sex, extramarital sex, bisexuality and tolerance towards homosexuals.

• Communal living

• Recreational drug use (as opposed to drug dependency), usually limited to psychotropic drugs such as marijuana, mescaline, psilocybin and LSD

• A fondness for nudity

• Use of incense

• Belief in Eastern spiritual concepts, such as karma and reincarnation; interest in Hindu and Buddhist religious philosophies

• Belief that spiritual advancement leads to increased psychic ability, e.g., the ability to see the human aura

• A vegetarian lifestyle was often considered important in this regard because it was thought to cleanse the body of impurities and "negative vibrations"

• Belief in astrology, tarot and I Ching divination

• A mellow outlook on life, and a belief that the temporal world is a manifestation of human thought and consciousness

• The twin ideals of peace and love were considered paramount

• Elements of Romanticism and Transcendentalist philosophy are evident in hippie music, prose and other artistic expressions

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